Moving
What to Do With the Family Home When a Parent Moves to Senior Living
The family home holds decades of life. Holidays around the table, kids learning to ride bikes in the driveway, quiet evenings on the porch. So when a parent moves to senior living, the question of what happens to the house can feel like one of the heaviest pieces of an already full season. You want…
Read MoreAdjusting to Assisted Living: What the First 30 Days Really Look Like
The move is behind you. The old house is quiet now, or already in someone else’s hands. Your parent is in a new apartment with fresh paint, different light through the windows, and an activity calendar they didn’t choose. You did what love and reality asked of you: found the right level of support, made…
Read MoreMoving to Assisted Living: Navigating the Ins and Outs of a New Transition
Moving to assisted living is a big step for seniors and their families. It often brings a mix of emotions. There is optimism about the change in living situation and available care, but also some sadness about leaving a familiar home behind. If you’re facing this transition, clear, compassionate information can turn uncertainty into optimism.…
Read MoreFrom Overwhelmed to Empowered: A Real Family’s Senior Placement Journey
When the Taylor family (names changed for privacy) first contacted NextStep Transitions, they were feeling something many families face when caring for an aging loved one: completely overwhelmed. The Situation Joan Taylor, 82, lived in her home for nearly 40 years. Recently widowed and recovering from a fall, her health was declining, and her once-sharp…
Read MoreArticle: Seattle Times
Downsizing is no small feat. In the Seattle area, it’s very common for older adults to move into homes that are 700 to 900 square feet, says Mindy Garner, a real estate agent and the founder of ElderMove Alliance, a group of businesses aligned in their goal of helping older adults achieve their goals.Many people…
Read MoreFeeling Overwhelmed?
By definition – being emotionally overwhelmed means to be completely submerged by your thoughts and emotions about all of life’s current problems, to the point where you lack efficacy and feel frozen or paralyzed. Compare the feeling of being overwhelmed to being submerged after a rough wave. “Overwhelmed”, is probably the word I hear most often when I meet with new…
Read MoreLetting Go to Move Ahead.
Losing a spouse or loved one, leaving a home or job you love, watching children leave for school, deciding when it is time to move into smaller spaces – what do all these things have in common? Letting go. Letting go of something you treasure. Losing something that is yours, something you think cannot be replaced…
Read MoreLocal Moving – What You Should Know
If you are moving locally and are planning to hire a moving company to help you, there are a couple of things you should know about how things really work out there in mover land. Not all is created equal but if you are armed with the right information you can be a savvy, informed…
Read MoreIt’s all about that box, bout that box, bout that box!
I have posted before about using the right size boxes for packing, but it bears repeating after visiting a client who packed books into a large carton and realized too late that she nor the movers could move it! This box size dilemma seems obvious to an old mover like me but to many of…
Read MoreDownsizing Move in your Future? Who is on your Transition Team?
If you have a large, downsizing move in your future you need to start planning. To speak bluntly, you need to start getting your ducks in a row. A significant move from a home of 30 plus years has many twists and turns that you should be preparing for. I have always told people that…
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