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How a Hungry Jack's Whopper burger brought a man out of his room

Staff go the extra mile in this heart-warming dementia story.

The challenge: a 67-year-old male resident at HammondCare Horsley’s special dementia care unit, known as Hart cottage, in Wollongong, would not leave his room and would only eat tinned peaches.

Special Dementia Care program manager Stacey Nailer asked him what would get him to leave his room. The answer was, "A Hungry Jack's Whopper and chips."

So Stacey organised a trip to Hungry Jack's, Sylvania, and the resi

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