Paul Andersen used to travel by car to his son Ian's house for lunch every Sunday. Now if they want to visit each other, all they need to do is walk a couple of minutes to the other's home.
Ian recently joined Paul living in the Carinity Brownesholme seniors' community in Highfields. The Andersens are the only father-son combination living in a Carinity retirement village.
Ian is no stranger to Brownesholme - his father has lived there for 20 years. Ian now lives so close to Paul that he can see his father's place from his new back yard.
Ian moved into his own two-bedroom unit a couple of months ago, relocating from nearby Meringandan West, and is enjoying the "relaxed atmosphere of the place".
"In my mind there was always the potential that I might end up at Brownesholme - and I'm very comfortable and very happy to be here," Ian said.
His expectations of living at "a place I'm really familiar with" have been met since his "very seamless transition" to the retirement village.
"From my perspective it's affordable and it's always been a place that I thought would work for me," Ian said.
"It's about the quality of the construction, the openness of the design - it's nicely set out and there's a nice distance between each house. It's well maintained, and a great bunch of people live here as well.
"For me personally, I wasn't looking to move into a retirement village that has all this other stuff you can do on site like a pool, gym and restaurant. You pay for all those extras and that's not what I was looking for.
"I still have lots of interests outside of Brownesholme. I bowl two or three times a week and I'm on the board of directors of a college - which keeps me busy. Dad probably comes by my place every so often but I'm not in!"
Ian praised the assistance Carinity Brownesholme Village Manager, Vaughn Whittingham, provided when selecting and purchasing his retirement dwelling.
"The previous occupant of my unit had been there since the start (of Brownesholme). For me it was like moving into a new house because the unit had been totally refurbished inside. Everything has been redone," Ian said.
"I asked for a couple of things to be done slightly differently and Carinity just made that happen. It was a very easy process and very professional.
"I feel very comfortable and given the timing of how the unit became available, I feel blessed by that."
According to Paul, Ian knew what the village was like, and he knew how it was managed.
"Knowing all that detail, I think it made it fairly easy for him to decide where he wanted to go," Paul said.
"It's great that I know he's there. I can go to him, or he can come to visit me any time. It's very reassuring that there's someone close."
Paul, 95, has lived at Carinity Brownesholme since 2005, having moved in with his late wife, Joyce. The Andersens have been the sole residents of their unit.
"Our cul-de-sac was in the process of being established and they were about ready to start building houses when we were interested in coming here," Paul recalls.
"The Baptist influence in the place was an attraction, as was the people here and the fact we knew the manager at the time, who was a pretty good friend of ours from the church.
"All those things together made it look like it would be a very suitable place to live, in the same sort of atmosphere that we were used to.
"I also like the fact that you're not hand-to-hand out the window beside your neighbour. You have a bit of room, it's pretty relaxed and you feel secure."
Paul also takes comfort in the fact that, should he require higher care in the future, the Carinity Brownesholme residential aged care home is located next to his retirement village.
"I know that if I get to the stage where I can't reasonably look after myself due to mobility or whatever other issue, I can go down there and stay," he said.
"The aged care was talked about but it wasn't in progress when we built here, however we knew it was going to happen. That was also an influence in us coming here to Brownesholme."
