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Family Sets up Mini Store at Home for 87-year-old Mom with Alzheimer’s During Coronavirus Lockdown

Family Sets up Mini Store at Home for 87-year-old Mom with Alzheimer’s During Coronavirus Lockdown

Family Sets up Mini Store at Home for 87-year-old Mom with Alzheimer’s During Coronavirus Lockdown

An Australian family is sharing how they are having fun while in self isolation by making their very own personal Coles store.

Jason van Genderen shared a video on Facebook to show how he, his wife and two children has set up a mini Coles supermarket in their home to help his 87-year-old mother who has Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia.

Mr van Genderen explained that during four weeks of isolation his mother’s routine had be “thrown around” and she was struggling “to make sense of what the week is”.

“So we can’t take her to the shops anymore but what we thought we’d do is we’d open up a supermarket at home,” he explained

Staffing their personal Coles was his wife Megan and daughter Evie on customer service, and his son Art manning the cash register.

The bench was full of grandma’s favourite items including cereal and bananas, and a whiteboard showed the weekly specials.

“Welcome to Coles,” Mr van Genderen said as he brought his mother in, who was all smiles.

Read more about this heartwarming story here!  See the adorable video below!  Make sure you have some tissues handy!

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