The festive season has been the time to be jolly and have lots of sweet foods and goodies to eat. January is, therefore, a timely month to review our oral and dental health care. It is well-documented that good oral health is essential for general health and wellbeing, and is therefore, essential for healthy ageing. Oral and dental health is important whether people have their own, natural teeth, partial dentures or full...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Russell Williams
You will find, says Russell Williams, that every third person on the street in Cardiff, Wales, is a Williams. Not all the Williamses stayed in Wales, however, and that is just as well for Foster. It just wouldn’t be the same without the Williams clan who have made it their home over the last sixty-odd years and contributed so much to the community, especially the local fire brigade...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Win Osbourne
“So much for my name being ‘Win,’ I never win anything!” laughs Win Osborne, who was born Winifred Cook nearly 90 years ago.
Win’s parents and three brothers came out from Scotland in 1921. She was born 12 months later...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Mick Platt
A framed display of life membership medals for three different Welshpool sporting clubs – football, cricket and golf – bears witness to the sporting prowess of Mick Platt. Such all-round sporting ability and involvement is a rare distinction, but Mick is modest about the achievement...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Max Mortlock
He has been such a major player in the life of the Corner Inlet community for so many years, it is perhaps surprising to learn that Max Mortlock is not a born and bred South Gippslander.
Nearly 80 years ago Max was born in Dunolly, near Maryborough in northwestern Victoria. He moved to Melbourne with his family as a young child at the start of the...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Kathleen Morris
There is proof that Kathleen has reached her century, however, in the large collection of messages of congratulation that adorn her room at Prom View Lodge – from the Queen, the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, the Premier, the Victorian Governor, the Deputy Premier and Member for Gippsland South Peter Ryan, and federal member Russell Broadbent...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Maudi Thomson
You would be hard pressed to find a greater fan of Fish Creek than Maudi Thomson. She has even written several books about the picturesque district in which she grew up and where she lived until moving into Banksia Lodge a few years ago.
Now that her home is in Foster, however, the traditional rivalry between Fishy and Foster has Maudi torn...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Elvina Krause
You have to feel for Elvina Krause, who is finding South Gippsland mighty cold after spending many years in Queensland. Still, she is very comfortable at Banksia Lodge, her home for the last couple of years, and delighted to be near her sister again. This sister is Ros Bryan, a long-time resident of the Foster/Fish Creek district. Ros brought her elder sister down from Queensland six years ago and Elvina lived with her for 12...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Joyce Marlin
Joyce is in fine fettle for someone who was born over 93 years ago. She has lived at Prom View Lodge for more than three years and before that lived at Banksia Lodge for a couple of years. She says she is very well looked after by the staff of Prom View. “She is constantly telling the family how wonderful the staff are,” says her sister, Elaine Truscott, who lives locally and visits frequently, as does another sister, Rae Truscott...
Read MoreThe Golden Years – Elsie Rodman
Feisty, funny and full of joie de vivre, Elsie is determined to make 100. A hale and hearty 91-year-old, who amazingly, despite being a keen reader, has no need for reading glasses since she had her cataracts removed, she is showing every sign of achieving her ambition...
Read MoreAgeing, driving and keeping a sense of humour
While on the shopping tour fundraiser for the new building Saturday 20 October 2012, I was fortunate enough to come across two books, the first is “The Book of Senior Moments” by Shelley Klein, and the second “Seriously Senior Moments” by Geoff Tibballs. The books reminded me that we all have funny quirks and foibles, some of which are attributed to ageing. This month’s column looks at the lighter side of ageing...
Read MoreSymbolic sod turning marks start of aged care build
THERE was celebration aplenty, though last Friday’s turning of the sod marking the start of construction of the new Prom Country Aged Care facility in Foster did not go exactly to plan. The weather made sure of that.
Wind squalls and driving rain prompted the organisers to relocate the event to St...
Read MoreProm Country Aged Care new building
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Eden Alternative course
Prom Country Aged Care Inc. is providing the opportunity for people working in residential and community Aged Care to participate in a three day workshop on the Eden Alternative Philosophy.
The Eden Alternative is a philosophy of person-directed care which focuses upon empowering residents, staff, families and other stakeholders to provide a better life for...
Read MoreThe birth of a new age – building commences!
The residents, staff and volunteers at Prom Country Aged Care Inc. (PCAC) are gearing up to enter an exciting chapter in the development of their new 60 bed aged care facility in Foster. The traditional ‘turning of the soil’ will take place onsite at 11am on Friday 7 September with long-time residents Kathleen Morris and Ron Ball assisting Senator David Feeney with the first shovel to hit the ground at the new site...
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