Laurie Sucic does not mince words. “I hate begging,” she says, sitting in the neat living room of the unit she shares with her husband, Nandi, in a Sydney retirement village. “You work all your life, and then you have to beg.” At age 91, her Home Care Package application has been marked ‘not urgent’. “I don’t like that.” It is urgent. Laurie and Nandi – aged 92 – have ...
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“I hate begging”: at 91, Laurie’s Home Care Package is ‘not urgent’
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