Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

210 Business View Oceania - September/October 2016 Nowadays, specialty facilities for re- tired and elderly people are common- place. The world at large has iden- tified a need to deliver care to the older members of our societies and huge efforts have been made to en- sure high levels of satisfaction with- in those communities. However, this was not always the case. Some vi- sionary individuals first established the foundations of what we now call care and rest homes and retirement villages. Peter Woodnorth and Michael Gres- son, for instance, were instrumental in the development of Timaru’s care homes. In 1957, they helped establish the Anglican-Methodist South Canter- bury Glenwood Home Trust Board as a direct response to concerns raised in the community about the lack of local facilities for the elderly. The Board set out raising funds and preparing plans for the construction of a new modern rest home on what was then the west- ern boundary of Timaru . Glenwood Glenwood Celebrating life since 1964