Senior Moving Solutions

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 »

Moving Made Easy: 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 »

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 »

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 »

Book Review: 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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