If you have the luxury of time, and if your parent is willing, think about beginning to declutter before a move is on the near horizon.If you are an adult child helping your parent make this move, we hope this also offers advice on how to be both supportive and efficient as you and your loved ones manage this major life event. (For more information, see also FCA’s fact sheet Home Away from Home: Relocating Your Parents.) We encourage you to get as much help and support as you can from friends, family, religious communities and social service organizations. This may be the most challenging experience of all. If you are facing a crisis, such as moving a parent into an assisted care residence after a caregiving spouse dies, or into a nursing home after a devastating stroke, the process will be condensed and planning time will be minimal. Since every situation is different, select the areas that apply to you, and add your own notes in the spaces provided below. Most importantly, the Checklist below provides a tool to help you organize your move and help it progress as smoothly as possible. This tip sheet offers a handy guide to save time, energy and sleepless nights. More often, this relocation can be an unwelcome admission of frailty, loneliness, possible serious illness, and a loss of independence. On the positive side, a move may offer a sense of “lightening” to reduce the messy clutter of a family’s history, fewer home and yard chores and can help reduce feelings of isolation of living alone. For an older adult this “new” opportunity may feel like a mixed blessing. When you’re older and moving from the family home to a new smaller residence, possibly in a new community or your adult child’s home, sorting through decades of family history and possessions can feel overwhelming-even paralyzing.Īs we progress through life, moving may signal new opportunities, a new relationship, a new adventure ahead. Whether it’s cross-town or cross-country, whether to a small apartment or a large suburban home, tackling the organizing, packing, discarding, cleaning, paperwork and the myriad other tasks is a major challenge. Moving is a high-stress life event, the experts tell us, and they’re right.
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