Expert Column
Margit Novack 
Senior Moving Specialist
Margit Novack is a pioneer in the rapidly expanding industry of Senior Move Management...read more
Articles In This Column
- Funeral Planning: Having the Talk with Your Loved One
- How to Alleviate the Stress of Moving for Older Adults
- Geriatric Fiblets: The Ethics of White Lies
- A Tale of Hoarding: Honor Thy Father & Mother
- When Things Can't be Mended
- A Life that Matters
- Helping Parents Move Upwind
- Reunions, Reminiscence & Reflection: Stories to Tell
- Hoarding Solutions
- Home Buyers Beware: A Cautionary Tale
- Moving Made Simple: How to Create a Stress-Free Move Day
- RIGHTsizing Your Life
- The Downsizing Cover-up
- Moving a Relative with Memory Loss
- Helping Mom and Dad Move: Practical Advice for Adult Children
- Downsizing: 6 Months & Counting
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A Life that Matters
I have decided to make a former client my role model. I met him half a dozen years ago, when he was in his early eighties and moving to a retirement community. As we began planning his move, he said, “I lost my wife three years ago. Sorting through our belongings makes me feel like I am losing her all over again—I wish I could go away and come back after the move.” And so he became our first...Read entire article »
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Helping Parents Move Upwind
In sailing, the technique used to move upwind (or against the wind) is called “tacking.” Although tacking is actually a combination of vector mathematics and boat design, to most of us, it refers to the concept of making forward progress by zigzagging rather than moving forward directly. For adult children helping their parents transition from one home to another, tacking can be a very useful technique. I met recently with a woman in her early eighties. She suffered a...Read entire article »
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Reunions, Reminiscence & Reflection: Stories to Tell
Last week I gazed at photos from my fortieth high school reunion. Some people looked exactly the same, but most had changed. Some were thinner, some were heavier, many were gray-haired. I spent the most time looking at pictures of the girls I had placed on pedestals during high school—the pretty, the popular, the thin. I was so hard on myself then. Sometime during the past forty years I came to accept who I am—the good and the bad—and...Read entire article »
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Hoarding Solutions
Through Moving Solutions, I have had experience with numerous hoarding situations. Hoarding is a complex behavior, characterized by the acquisition of items and the failure to discard of them, to such an extent that they impact functioning and create a hazard. Sometimes hoarding may place the individual or others at risk. Hoarding is a private disorder. Many hoarders have not had anyone in their home for years. Spouses of hoarders, too embarrassed to invite people over, often become socially...Read entire article »
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Home Buyers Beware: A Cautionary Tale
All across the country, signs of spring will soon appear, and with them, thousands of “For Sale” signs. Many of these homes for sale will be occupied by older adults who have lived in them for decades. While some of these older home owners will be well and hearty, others will be frail and have limited mobility. They may have given up driving, be tethered to oxygen or have difficulty getting out of the house due to physical ailments....Read entire article »
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