A father of two in Australia made a whole set-up of a smaller version of Coles supermarket in his house just so that his 87-year-old mom can still continue doing her weekly supermarket trips while being stuck in quarantine.
Jason Van Genderen from the Central Coast in New South Wales made a familiar supermarket set-up just for his mom who has Alzheimers and vascular dementia. His mom always looks forward to going to the supermarket every week and since the quarantine started a month before, she’s been stuck in isolation and can no longer even go on her weekly grocery trips that she loves so much.
Jason took a video of the heart-warming experience of ‘accompanying’ his mom to their makeshift grocery at home and shared it on his Facebook account. Jason said that:
“It is possible to let the sunshine in when we can despite it being a difficult time. We’ve been living in home isolation for the past four weeks.”
“Something that is a little bit unique to our family makeup is that my mum lives with us. She is 87 and she has Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia. Her routine has really been thrown and just trying to make sense of what the week is is blown to pieces for her.”
Another thing he added was that one of the ‘big things mum hangs her week on’ is their weekly grocery run – which she does, along with her family to accompany her.
So rather than completely stopping her from enjoying her week, Jason, along with his wife and two kids made their own mini supermarket in order from her to still get her shopping done. There he took her to the shop counters, as he usually does, where she can see what vegetables and produce she needs to buy fro m her list.
At their supermarket, Jason’s mom was assisted by his wife Megan and their children Evie and Art.
‘Grab your bag and I’ll come and take you shopping!’ Jason told his mother, who didn’t believe him at first.
‘It’s a bit hard because we can’t take you to the shops, so we thought we’d take the shops to you!’ Jason said.
His mother was obviously touched by this sweet and thoughtful gesture, laughing and asked, ‘what is wrong with him?’ regarding her son.
Based on the list she was given, she got some vegetables, bananas, and two packs of Rice Puffs, which she eats ‘every morning’ for breakfast.
Aside from that, she also bought some Easter eggs for her two grandchildren and pork sirloin to have for dinner.
‘Have a good day Madam!’ Art said at the checkout counter at the end.
When Jason shared this video on Facebook, it went viral immediately, with people praising and congratulating him for this creative and sweet idea.
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