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AAT. NEWTON DAY CENTRE:

Some. nights when George
Dicks goes to bed, he tells
himself he won’t go anywhere
the next day. But when morn-
ing comes, he rushes through
dressing to go to Mt. Newton
act Day Centre.

By JULIETT E PROOM
Review Staff Writer

The 73 year old is one of the
specialized © seniors entre’s
greatest fans. He enjoys the
company, the activities and
the food.”

Each weekday. Dicks and
two dozen others eather in a
heritage house on Mit. Newton

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Deakin is always at the top of
the line of volunteers to make
ice cream.

Executive. director Patsy
Berger-North says Mt.
Newton Adult Day Centre is
“care centred.’”? The entire
staff, except the cook, are
registered nurses, who can give
injections and look after
medical needs.

But daily
ambling

visitors to the
farmhouse near

Saanich Peninsula Hospital
primarily think of their ac-
uviuies,

“ET tike to come ‘Tuesday for
the exercise class,”” says 8&7-

| People,

with old-time favorites like
‘?m Looking Over a Four-
Leaf Clover.'

The regulars take full ad-
vantage of services offered at
the centre. Women may have
their hair done; men_ occa-
sionally receive help shaving.

Berger-North thinks of the
centre as a bridge. ‘It helps
people who can live in their
homes, but need some help.”

She loves te show-off the
$8,000 Parker batntub.
side swings open, allowing
wheelchair-bound bather. tu
side into its seat. An atien-

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left by .the Hudson’s Bay
Company trapper’ who_ built
the house around the turn of
the century.

But the society operating the
centre says it’s time for a new
home. Last week, the Capital
Regional Hospital Board was
asked to fund a new centre.

The current facility is cold
in winter and lacks a proper
foundation, ‘‘The -toilet fell
through the floor one day,”’
says boardmember
Perodeau. ,

if funding is approved, the
society. would like to build

~ eek ih have dant tits the tub back. uruch near the current site. ‘It’s im-
Crossroad. All have _ two year-old Margaret Jonsson, I like a denitist’s chair. portant that we are near the
things in common: ihey find it like Friday for the singing:”’ “We have guests who’

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hospital,’’ says Berger-North.

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own and they enjoy company. year-old Mildred Priebe's

“Tt sh we we ean caloy ae . a years,’’ Berger-North = says. centre become ‘‘a one-stop
t shows us we can enjoy favorite time. Other days of “A 93-year-old woman used shopping centre for health
old age,’’ says Ted Deak Kin. the week, the Mt. Newton to. say she loved her ‘weekly care needs.’’ I1 would. lend
Despite needing a walker, adult day chorus resounds vor

wallow’.

Many people are introduced
to the centre after they've been
in Saanich Peninsula Hospital.
“It also acts as a transition
house between acute care. in:
the hospital and home stays.
the executive director says.

“We have one 90-vear-old
man who does not speak
English,’’. says Berger-North.
Doctors tried to place him in
an extended care hospital after
he took too long récovering
from a broken hip.

“But we brought .him. over
here’ and. he improved. so
rapidly: that -he’ 's back home
with his family.”

Everyone is welcome at the
centre, she adds, but regulars
must be approved by a conti-
nuing care assessor: who. works
for the long-term: care Oe
pram.

The centre ‘entertains about
SO people every. week; ‘ranging
in age from 57 to 1020.

“Visitors sav they. love: the.
sunny house’on: the hill: ‘The.’

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space to doctors,
physiotherapists, podiatrists
-and others who help the elder-
ly remain healthy.

The CRHB §is° considering
the centre’s request for finan-
cial assistance.

MILDRED PRIEBE, 90, enjoys comb- out by centre
nurse > Margaret Painwcainer.

“GLADYS: BROOKER, 97, samples afternoon ‘snack at
Mt. Newton Adult Day. Centre. '

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