Wear Purple Day
Wearing purple is a celebration of ageing. Hold a Wear Purple Day to show your support!!
We invite you to hold a Wear Purple Day as a celebration of ageing in which older people’s individual, collective and lifelong contributions to our society are recognised and honoured.
You might choose a time of year that has specific significance for older people such as March when Seniors Week is celebrated, or 1st October for International Day of Older Persons or to acknowledge World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on 15th June.
Or you may choose any other time of year that works for you. As a number of older people have said we get all this attention in March and then we are forgotten about for the rest of the year.
Below are some resources that could be useful in preparing for your Wear Purple Day and Respect for Seniors events:
- Respect for Seniors Campaign Background Approach
- Suggestions for holding a Wear Purple Day
- A reflection by Rev. Douglas Purnell 2009
- Respect for Seniors A5 flyer 2009
- St Ives Uniting Church Respect for Seniors 2009 Order of Service
- Respect for Seniors insert 2009
- Letter from the Mayor of Ku-ring-gai 2009
- Students Speeches from 2009 and 2010
- Wear Purple Day flyer 2010
- Invitation to the Annual Elders Interview 2010
- St Ives Uniting Church Respect for Seniors 2010 Order of Service
- St Ives insert for 2010
- Rev. Eric Drury’s Reflection for 2010 Service
- Launch of Elders Interview by Mayor of Ku-ring-gai 2010
- Report on Wear Purple Day 2010 from Rev. Dr Bill Ives
- Contribution from Gosford Uniting Church 2010
- Wear Purple Day flyer 2011
- Respect for Seniors A5 flyer 2011
- Respect for Seniors flyer 2012
- Wear Purple Day 2012 invitation
- Respect for Seniors VIP Invite 2012
- Wear Purple Day 2012 speakers
- Order of service WPD 2012
- J O'Dea Speech - Wear Purple Day 2012
- Warning poem 2012
- Interview questions for Dr Ray Hollings 2012
- Respect for Seniors The Link
- Proclamation
- Article about Mickey Rooney
