- Alzheimer’s Care
- Care Facility Evaluation Checklists
- Communicating with Loved Ones
- Downsizing Your Home
- Essential Documents
- Home Modification
- Hospitalization
- Paying for Care
- Respite
- Tips for Easy Moving
- Weighing your Housing Options
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 the rest of this 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 the rest of this 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 the rest of this 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 the rest of this 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 the rest of this article »
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