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Meilene Residential Aged Care Home

Sunday January 17

Hearts beat as one for Bundaberg couple of seven decades

A Bundaberg couple who have been married for 66 years have shown love knows no bounds and that not even during the difficult times can the two be separated

Noel and Gloria's love story: one for the storybooks

Gloria lives in Meilene Residential Aged Care Home and Noel travels four minutes on his motorised scooter to visit her every day to feed her lunch. They have been married for 66 years: “She means everything to me. Everything. I just want to go one day longer than her”

Long-term Anglicare SQ Bundaberg staff member Vailo Kalepo inspired her daughter Cyrene Kalepo to follow in her footsteps and become an EEN at Meilene Residential Aged Care Home

How this mum inspired her daughter to become a healthcare worker

“My mother is my main influence with my career choice because I always saw how much joy her job brought her and I asked her if she truly enjoyed her job, and the smile that was on her face when she was talking about her job when I was a child was mesmerising,” says Cyrene Kalepo, an Anglicare endorsed enrolled nurse from Bundaberg