Senior Transitions

Senior Transitions What Does Each Visit Tell You? When you visit an older family member—your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or perhaps a close family friend—do you sometimes notice little things that concern you? Maybe the mail is piling up on the kitchen counter. Someone who was always meticulously organized, now has things scattered around the house. Perhaps their mood has changed. Someone who […]
Senior Transitions And Then There’s the Stuff….. When you’re thinking about right-sizing, deciding where you want to live may actually be the easy part. Then you look around your home and think, What am I going to do with all this stuff? For some people, the answer comes fairly easily. For others, a home filled with decades of belongings-and the memories attached […]
Senior Transitions Right-Sizing: Creating a Plan for What Comes Next What does right-sizing look like for you? Moving to a smaller home to accommodate changes in your needs is a normal life transition. But right-sizing doesn’t always mean moving to something smaller. Sometimes it means moving to a larger home so family and friends have a comfortable place to stay. Sometimes it’s about finding a […]
Senior Transitions Post Retirement Relocations (or maybe not)… Retirement is the perfect time to imagine a fresh start but choosing where to live is about more than finding a lower-cost home or paying less in taxes. I recently spoke with a woman in her 80s who moved from California to the Midwest after retiring. While it seemed like the right decision at the […]
Senior Transitions The Invisible Anchor: What’s Really Holding People Back from Leaving When people talk about relocating, the conversation usually centers around the obvious. Jobs. Housing. Finances. Those are real considerations-but in many cases, they’re not what’s holding people back. There’s something else at work. Something less visible; it can be called it the invisible anchor. It’s the collection of ties that don’t show up on a spreadsheet […]
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