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aging gracefully! Hilarious and VERY cheeky nursing home calendar shows rebellious residents blowing off steam after three-week lockdown
- Residents of Hepburn House aged care facility in Daylesford, Victoria, posed for irreverent calendar
- Photos show a grandfather flashing a woman, and a few residents escaping the facility on a motorcycle
- Photographer David White said residents were in a fun, rebellious mood after Covid and ready to let go
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Residents of an Australian retirement home starred in a hilarious calendar that was partly in response to the end of a Covid lockdown.
Thirteen residents of Hepburn House in Daylesford, Victoria, play in scenarios ranging from a woman on a mobility scooter turning ‘the bird’ over, to another being thrown into a police car and a grandfather flashing a female resident.
While the 2023 calendar wasn’t designed in response to public health regulations, photographer David White said residents were poised to go rogue after extended quarantines.
Nursing home residents were also ready for a laugh after a grim time in 2022.
Residents of an Australian retirement home, Hepburn House, northwest of Melbourne, starred in a hilarious calendar that was partly a response to the end of a Covid lockdown
Photographer David White said the 13 residents who posed were up for some rebellious fun, including cover girl Ruth, who spontaneously flipped the bird
In 2022, more than 3,000 residents of retirement homes died from Covid, compared to 917 during the first two years of the pandemic.
Mr White told Daily Mail Australia that after a recent three-week shutdown, residents had some ‘pent-up frustration’ and were acting spontaneously as they were ready to unleash some ‘creative energy’.
“No one has been allowed to go into nursing homes for two or three years now, those people have missed a lot of contact,” said Mr White.
“I knew they would love it and they were ready.
‘It was very fun.’
In an ironic picture, a grandfather flashes a female inmate who looks pleasantly surprised
Another image shows a couple of friends, Helen Bridge and Denise De Zilwa, smoking on the road as they flee the house in their vintage motorcycle and sidecar
The woman on the calendar’s cover, Ruth Irving, turned the bird spontaneously during filming when Mr. White asked what she was going to do.
The manager of the house, Dianne Jones, told the ABC that Ms Irving is normally “a very dignified lady.”
Another image shows a pair of friends, Helen Bridge and Denise De Zilwa, smoking across the road as they flee the house in their vintage motorcycle and sidecar.
In another, a female resident peers under the kilt of a man playing the piano.
The theme of the calendar is ‘aging gracefully’, referring to a community project originally designed to connect ‘LGBTQI seniors’ in Victoria.
Organizers hope the money raised from the calendar sale will pay for an $8,000 upgrade to Hepburn House bus seats
The organizers hope that the money raised from sale of the calendar will pay for an $8,000 upgrade for the seats on the Hepburn House bus.
It was the house’s third calendar shoot, with the first in 2020 being a fundraiser for the Black Summer bushfires.
The cover featured 84-year-old Peggy Warren seemingly naked, but with her modesty covered in rose petals, in the style of the famous poster for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty.
It raised $6,000.
The Hepburn House calendar is at the printers and will be out in time for Christmas. Anyone interested in buying one should e-mail the house directly here.
The Hepburn House calendar is at the printers and will be out in time for Christmas. Anyone interested in purchasing one should email the Hepburn House directly