Meet the Resident: Charlotte We chatted with Charlotte who shared some lovely memories as a child growing up in a beautiful East German town called Magdaburg. She remembers her mother as a gentle kind and caring woman who was always singing. She would brush Charlotte’s hair and braid it. Her parents were madly in love. Charlotte had one brother and two sisters and they were a musical family. Charlotte herself used to play the harmonica and piano acordian.
Charlotte became a nurse and one of her scariest and proudest moments in life was saving 9 patients by digging them and herself out of a bombed hospital ward where they were trapped. Charlotte and her best friend decided to come to Australia as nurses to Western Australia for 2 years but fate had other ideas. The ship they were on bypassed Perth and landed instead in Melbourne where she met her husband, married, had a beautiful daughter. Australia became her new home. Charlotte has an immense love of gardens born from arriving in Australia and seeing so many species of flowers without the frost and snow of Germany. She passed this love of gardens to her daughter grand children and now great grandchildren. Charlotte shared that she loves the gardens at Cumberland View and spends most morning in the garden courtyards admiring the variety of plants.
Walking is very important to Charlotte and she shares a cheerful hello to anyone she passes as she walks. At Cumberland View Charlotte has many friends and says there is always something different to do, lots of food and the staff are a lot of fun. Her favourite activities are the morning walking group and any of our musical concerts which she says reminds her of the beautiful music from her childhood. Charlotte's advice on turning 102 early next year is “stay active and be happy.”
Spring edition 2024
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Cumberland View Aged Care
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