DOWNSIZING IN AUSTRALIA
STORY TWO
Bill and Janette
A good friend of mine, Bruce, had elderly parents, Bill and
Janette, who were in their 80s and still living in the family home
where they had raised four kids. The kids were long gone, and
they now had 13 grandchildren. They did not want to leave the
home that they had worked so hard for and where they had
gathered so many memories.
As Bruce was the eldest of the four kids and, even more
importantly, lived the closest to his mother and father, he was in
charge of nearly everything from mowing the lawns, gardening
and organising maintenance around the home to taking both
parents to medical appointments. Bill and Janette hadn’t driven
for some 10 years.
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