2 Australian stories - a very elderly man in a small village/town with a small nursing home where his brother had spent his life in an iron lung spoke on the radio. The home was closing (uneconomic) & residents were being transferred to a larger town/regional city. The brothers had no living relatives & there was no public transport. Perhaps someone/agency was later able to arrange transport, but daily?

Archival photo of a gi-normous barn-like room full of iron lungs with a nurse for each patient ...