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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Moving Made Simple: How to Create a Stress-Free Move Day
On the lists of stress-inducing events, moving is usually one of the highest, with move day being the climax. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are two categories of needs that occur during move day. The first encompasses transactional needs, the types of activities that you find on checklists. The second category comprises emotional need. Finding solutions for emotional needs is often more complex. By planning and anticipating both types of needs, you can reduce stress...Read entire article »
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RIGHTsizing Your Life
This past year, my husband and I moved to a smaller home. We left our six-bedroom home of 18 years and moved to one-story living. The fact that I have helped clients do this for 11 years did not mean that we would be able to do it easily. We approached our downsizing as a business venture; our house was our largest single asset, and we wanted to realize the most from its sale. As we de-cluttered room after...Read entire article »
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The Downsizing Cover-up
For years, those of us in senior move management have talked about the difficulty of downsizing one’s home, and how sorting through belongings that have accumulated over decades unleashes memories. Making decisions and letting go of the past is hard. But recently, I have begun to see the angst of downsizing as something else. More and more, my clients are talking about their deeper fears of moving. Will I be happy? Am I doing the right thing? Will I...Read entire article »
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Moving a Relative with Memory Loss
Moving a relative from home to a residential care facility can be one of the most difficult decisions that family members will ever have to make. Moving a Relative with Memory Loss: A Family Caregiver's Guide, a booklet by Laurie White and Beth Spencer, is one of the best resources I have read on the subject. For those of you looking for black-and-white answers, you will not find them here. Moving a Relative with Memory Loss is about a...Read entire article »
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Helping Mom and Dad Move: Practical Advice for Adult Children
Twenty years ago, my grandmother sold her eight-bedroom home in Atlantic City and moved to an apartment in Philadelphia. “Take this tablecloth,” she begged, “this mirror...the china set...this crystal...” And the list went on. “I don’t have room,” I responded. “It’s not my taste...I already have two of those...” I had good reasons for saying “no.” Now I regret those decisions. It’s not that I have grown to like the things she offered; it’s that I see my actions...Read entire article »
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