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Moving Your Parent into Your Home
When active parents begin to slow down and experience the effects of aging and ill health, one option is to sell the home and move in with adult children. Adult children, if nearby, can step in to help with food shopping, errands, and trips to and from the doctor’s...
Tips for Helping the Elderly Move Out of Their Homes
If illness or an accident means that elderly individuals need to leave their family home and move to assisted living, it can be a difficult transition. If one or the other isn’t ready to leave the home where they raised their children, it makes it especially...
Making Your Pets’ Move to a New Home as Stress-Free as Possible
One thing we can agree on. Moving can be one of the most stressful events for families. It is apparent from the moment we begin organizing, purging, and packing that our beloved family pets are sensing that “something is going on.” My own pet would lie...
Helping Your Parents Move Out of Their Home
If illness or an accident means that your parents need to leave their family home and move to assisted living, it can be a difficult transition. If one or the other isn’t ready to leave the home where they raised their children, it makes it stressful family...
Five Myths About Nutrition and Seniors
Think you know what’s best nutritionally for loved ones in their elder years? Here are five common but false beliefs about senior nutrition: #1 Seniors should follow healthy eating guidelines and they’ll be OK. Most nutritional guides, such as the Food Pyramid...
Bogus IRS Phone Calls Threaten to Bilk Seniors
The latest in phone scams is one the IRS reports that is aimed at frightening people into thinking they not only owe money to the IRS, but that the government is about to take them to court to get back taxes and penalties and interest money! According to the Internal...
What Am I Going to Do with “All My Stuff”?
When rightsizing or downsizing a home in preparation for a move to a new location or an assisted living facility, the question of what to do with a lifetime of acquisitions is always a difficult one to answer. Once you have organized and sorted everything into:...
I Have Too Much “Stuff.” Options for Liquidation and What They Each Mean.
Life transitions often mean that we need to make decisions about what to do with years of accumulated personal property that no longer physically fits our new space, does not fit with our new lifestyle, or that needs to be liquidated to meet financial obligations. It...
Three Tips to Help Your Rightsizing Go Right!
Here are three key strategies to help seniors make the transition to smaller living quarters in a much less stressful and smooth fashion: Start with the basics. Often people have a very difficult time looking at empty rooms and understanding, spatially, what can...
Facing a Life Transition
There comes a time in each of our lives, and the lives of our loved ones, when we are faced with making lifestyle choices. These transition points may be of our own choosing, such as downsizing to a retirement home, or forced on us by health issues, death of a loved...