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Back to the Future
2058
What’s your schedule like today?
Packed to the rafters? Work-life
balance almost non-existent?
Could you imagine yourself doing
next to nothing once you hit 65,
the state’s official entry age to
seniorhood? We dare you to go
on a fast next month. Wipe every
meeting / event / activity and all
your to-do lists off your calendar
and just be. If you live to tell the tale,
we would love to hear from you.
The reality is that most people
who come into a nursing home
today don’t get to do what they
used to while they were living at
sun
home. Yes, lack of mobility is a
key factor but if we could imagine
a different way of ageing, one that
allows us to continue engaging in
our hobbies, lunches with friends
and dinners with family, how
would that nursing home look
and feel like?
No matter our age, we have
the chance to determine how
our future selves can experience
life when we get older. Mondays
don’t have to look like Tuesdays
and January shouldn’t feel like
February or March.
Since moving back to the
mon
tues
wed
newly redeveloped St Joseph’s
Home in 2017, we have started
the Night Cafe series, introduced
beauty spa moments, kickstarted
art jamming sessions, opened for
business our shopping pushcarts
and grown an edible herb garden.
We are writing a new narrative
for how we can all age and we’re
only at chapter one. Let’s imagine
together a future that better
encourages and supports ageing
in a way that only we would want
for ourselves and our loved ones.
thurs
February 2058
3
10
17
4
8am work
meeting
11
18
5
meet Hon
anniversary
dinner
19
25
26
Bintan getaway
70 | St Joseph’s Home
2
meet best
buds lunch
7 8 9
13 14 15 16
20
wish Jon-Jon
happy b-day /
train for half-
marathon!
Parents-
teachers conf
4pm / train
train train!
21
27
28
volunteer at
shelter
Mum’s 80th
birthday River
Pier restaurant
Movie date
night
22
*half
marathon*
meet
classmates
dinner
24
1
sat
6
work trip
starts
12
fri
23
SPA day with
the gals