Iwas about twenty when I stopped by my grandparents' place and found my grandma in the front yard after a fall.

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She had gone to the letterbox and tripped, lying in the front yard for hours. Bruised hip, bruised pride - and like so many Australian families, one incident began my family's interaction with the aged care system.

Everything's travelling fine - until something small goes wrong, and suddenly, it all changes.

Parkinson's disease was diminishing my grandma's body - but my grandpa, who had served in Papua New Guinea during the war, was the opposite. His memory was starting t

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