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Downsize a 4 bedroom house to a 2 bedroom retirement village apartment

Posted on by Clarissa Brandt
From hospital to new home
When it's time to downsize house to a retirement village apartment not everyone has the advantage of a big family who can take time off work and  do the pack up .  Sometimes to get the job done you need an extra hand, particularly when it needs to be done urgently. In the humidity of February, days before a predicted heatwave, Care to Move received a call from a Niece asking for help fo rher Aunt to downsize from a house to a retirement village apartment quickly. “She has been living on he...
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Need help with cooking? “I Hate Cooking” is the answer.

Posted on by Clarissa Brandt
Having a healthy diet not only has a positive impact on short and long-term physical and mental health, evidence indicates that food plays an important contributing role in the development, management and prevention of issues such as Dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In addition, as baby boomers, who won't stand for any old nosh, enter assisted living facilities and nursing homes they will be looking for nutritious and flavoursome meals. In the race to capture the "silver dollar" these organi...
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Case Study – Creating a home for a client with a disability

Posted on by Clarissa Brandt
disability transition services
As a senior professional and an accomplished, prolific artist Tom appreciates both beauty and well organised living spaces.  Which meant the environment he was living in was doubly intolerable. Care to Move was contacted by the Aged and Disability Australia (ADA Australia) Advocate to help Tom.  He had recently returned home after two years in hospital.  During his hospitalisation Tom’s house had been packed up and a number of renovations undertaken, including the installation of a lift, to a...
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