Dad shows the way
Joe Malcolm (left), founder of a profit-making, get-up-and-go organisation for New Zealand’s more than one million retired persons, is the father of Aussie Malcolm (right), the Minister of Health and Immigration, who has long called the retirement age the last great remaining barrier in New Zealand society. “What dad’s doing exactly demonstrates that people over the age of 65 do not match the stereotype that society has of them,” he says. “They are alert and very experienced people who have a lot to contribute, but the community always fails to recognise it. “What’s doubly damaging is that the stereotype is so entrenched that it affects the way the elderly see themselves. “Once they retire they say to themselves, ‘l’m old now,’ and they begin to vegetate and watch soap operas on television and drink endless cups of tea. It’s so wrong.”
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Press, 8 July 1983, Page 14
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