For many seniors, the idea of moving into a smaller home or living space can feel overwhelming at first. Downsizing is often associated with letting go—of belongings, space, or even memories.
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Senior Moving Anxiety
Moving can cause anxiety for people of any age, but for seniors, it often brings added stress and emotional concerns. Leaving a home filled with decades of memories, downsizing belongings, and transitioning into a new, smaller space can all contribute to anxiety.
Room Planning Tips For Moving Seniors
Making the move into an unfamiliar, smaller home or assisted living community is a big life transition. While it often means less upkeep, lower costs, and easier daily living, it also comes with the challenge of fitting a lifetime of belongings into a smaller, more compact space.
Senior Move Mistakes
Is there a move to a senior community in your future or the future of a loved one who you will be helping during this “big event”? There can be a lot of anxiety associated with a rightsizing move, but much of it can be avoided it…
Move Into Senior Community
You have made the decision that when the right time comes, you will move into a senior living community…the problem is, when is the right time to take this next step in your life?
Senior Safety
Unfortunately, well over 2 million elderly are involved in accidents in the home each year, many resulting in death, and the majority of them being attributed to falling. Here are some ideas to help make the home “senior safe”.
Pets In Senior Communities
For a senior being asked to move into a senior community, it’s a difficult to impossible thing. But what happens if they have a cat or dog that they love and can’t live without…can they take it with them?
Gifts For Senior Parents
Whether it’s birthdays, Mother’s or Father’s Day, Christmas, or any other celebration, if you have a senior parent, you are most likely wondering what gift you can give them…either their home is so full they haven’t got room for anything more, they don’t need anything more, or they are trying to downsize. What gift can […]
Moving Tips
How many times have you moved, or helped someone else move? How many times have you said or thought – “It would have gone better if this had been done.” Use these tips for a smoother move and transition.
Choosing a Senior Community
What do you imagine when you think of living in a senior or retirement community? A bunch of “old” people sitting on a porch in rocking chairs? Whoa…that’s not the life for you! You’re still healthy, independent and active, you want more than that. Everyone has a different idea of what they want from retirement living, […]