The Record reporter ROSLYN ROSS talks with Merle Partridge, a courageous grandmother who has overcome her disabilities to find a new purpose in her life. . . see story and pictures pages 10 and
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A Christian old age is a valuable time because the elderly person has lived long enough to vvork out what this life is all about. This was said by Sister Patrice Cooke at the open day for Two Pines hospital which has recently been acquired by Southern Cross Homes, a project of the Knights of the Southern Cross.
"It is a mistake for the old person to believe the most important part of life is over. For a Christian the most important, the most exciting, the most enjoyable part of our life is about to begin. "Old age is a time when we are just ready to love property, when most people stop hankering after the unimportant things in life like money and good Sister Patrice Cooke speaking at the open day for Two Pines Hospital
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preparing to break through that shell into our rea life. "As we grow older, hopefully we become wiser less superficial and become more ftilly who wc were meant to be when we were created." Sister Patrice said old age should be a time whet the elderly person knows they have a right tc special care. "No one is doing you a favour. You are th( people who have kept things going up until now You are the people who have passed on everythinj good we have today.
"For the first time in your life you are able to sit down without the pressure to achieve, to produce, and to meet the expectanons of others." Sister PatriCe said it was a common mistake !o think old age meant illness. "Illness can strike a person at any age. It is easy but not accurate to describe old age as a generalised illness. "Illness and a decreased ability to get around are not necessarily the same thing. For most elderly' people, it is possible to have a healthy old age. "The readiness to take old for ill sometimes prevent the elderly, doctors or their families from malcing effort to restore health. "It is not always recogniseC illness is precipitated b) emotional stress. Loss ot appetite, a tendency to with draw, irritability, and bac temper are put down to bac health or old age when ir fact they indicate loneliness boredom, feeling upsel because of the loss of inde pendence. "It is not enough to provide for the physical needs of the elderly. It is more importan to pmvide for their emo KSC chaplain Father John Orsanski (rigkt) blessing the Two Pines Hospital in the presence of Mrs Hazel C.arter (left) tke hospital matron, Mr TOM Perrott, chairman of Southern Cross Homes and Mrs Eileen Perron tional and spirimal needs. "We Christians believe we are only chickens in the egg now and as we move through life we are