Media: BOOK - paperback (96 pages)
Author: P. Sumerling
Year: 1993
Other: 47 illustrations

Aldersgate began as an institution-type home in 1944. By 1960 it had evolved into a ‘showcase’ community retirement village and changed its original name from The Central Mission Old Folks’ Home to Aldersgate.

It became a model retirement village, its positive reputation being acclaimed in South Australia, interstate and overseas. The Adelaide Central Mission had good reason to feel proud of its achievements in the field of aged care, for Aldersgate became a place that people not only were admitted to out of need but could also choose to retire to.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One—Setting the Scene
1. Brief History of the Adelaide Central Mission
2. Then, Now and Tomorrow—Background History of Aged Care
     (Looking at Destitute Asylum and Old Folks’ Home, Magill)
3. The Development of Aldersgate Village
4. Forsyth House, formerly Kahurangi— Happy Resting Place

Part Two—Let the People Speeds
5. The First Residents
6. Moving in, and First Impressions
7. Staff before 1982
8. The Garden and Surroundings
9. Daily life at Aldersgate
10. Clubs and Services
11. Special Occasions
12. Memorable Residents
13. The Three Eras of Aldersgate, 1944-1960, 1960-1982, 1982-1992
14. Naming the Buildings and Roads at Aldersgate
15. Conclusion
16. Epilogue

Plan of Aldersgate Village in the 1980s
Chronology for Aldersgate
Bibliography
Inde
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