"I'm 51 but I still look young," Carole Reid said, a dialysis patient from Warburton, West Australia.

"I feel it inside, I'm young."

In the process of getting her hair dyed brown, Ms Reid was speaking from Salon Day at the Purple House, headquarters of Western Desert Dialysis in Alice Springs.

The organisation provides dialysis services and incorporates a range of other services around social support and well being.

The Salon Day is an annual event that gives patients the opportunity to get their hair dyed and enjoy a cook-up of damper.

Click on the audio to hear Carole Reid and Jedda Marshall (from Papunya) speaking to ABC Alice Springs' Alice Moldovan.

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