{"id":62853,"date":"2024-03-26T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/26\/dhaka-bangladesh-cars-before-people-failing-elderly-acc"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T05:00:20","slug":"cars-before-people-how-chaotic-polluted-dhaka-is-failing-its-elderly-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62853","title":{"rendered":"Cars before people: how chaotic, polluted Dhaka is failing its elderly citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pollution, traffic, noise \u2013 the busy streets of the Bangladeshi capital prohibit many who are ill or have limited mobility from leaving their homes, posing further risks to their health<\/p>\n<p>The door of Rehana Khan\u2019s sixth-floor flat is as far as she ventures during the day. On most days, she barely leaves her bed. The city outside is too chaotic and overwhelming for her.<\/p>\n<p>Khan, 57, moved to Bangladesh\u2019s capital, Dhaka, a year ago, after her husband died. She lives with her only son and his wife, who were worried about her being alone in a village in the north-eastern district of Sylhet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/26\/dhaka-bangladesh-cars-before-people-failing-elderly-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pollution, traffic, noise \u2013 the busy streets of the Bangladeshi capital prohibit many who are ill or have limited mobility from leaving their homes, posing further risks to their healthThe door of Rehana Khan\u2019s sixth-floor flat is as far as she venture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1484,59,1222,466,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-diabetes","category-global-development","category-older-people","category-pollution","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62854,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62853\/revisions\/62854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}