Order your centenary book now!
Presbyterian Support Central is releasing Revaluing Life - The Quest to Live Well and Die Happy.
It is a unique centenary book that portrays the evolution of New Zealand's social history during the past 100 years.
Writer Allan Baddock looks at the evolution of our attitudes towards social service and aged care through the lens of Presbyterian Support Central, one of New Zealand's oldest not-for-profit organisations.
Founded in 1909 by the Rev Dr James Gibb, Presbyterian Support Central has spent a century developing to meet the specifc needs of New Zealanders – from orphanages in the early part of the century to aged care from the 1950s and social services in the 1970s.
Using stories from past and present, Baddock shows how war, government policy and social change helped tailor Dr Gibb’s vision to a changing world.
The author’s perspective as a baby boomer facing retirement helps chronicle our changing attitudes towards ageing, and hints at how these may change even further in future.
Featuring dozens of voices from a variety of eras and perspectives, Revaluing Life is not just Presbyterian Support Central’s story, or Allan Baddock’s story – it is a uniquely New Zealand story.
