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Overland Park Downsizing Assistance
Senior Moving Services Senior moving service offers downsizing assistance, decluttering, organizing, packing, unpacking for older adults in Johnson County, KS (Leawood, Overland Park, Mission, Olathe) and Kansas City metro.
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I'm Not Ready!
Helping Your Parents Understand
When It's Time
Helping Your Parents Understand
When It's Time
Senior Move Services Can Help Overcome Obstacles to Later-Life Moves
It is very difficult to get seniors to admit that it is time to move and even then to take the steps necessary to find a good facility. When people wait too long, their choices become limited. When a parent becomes seriously ill, stress levels rise and families living with disruption depend on worried children to research and gain admittance into the right kind of facility.
The following list offers some suggestions on how to persuade parents to move.
The following list offers some suggestions on how to persuade parents to move.
Persuading Parents to Consider Moving
1. Start early. Don't wait for the first sign of health deterioration2. Be consistent. If it looks like they will need help soon, be honest and keep presenting a consistent message. Try to get all family members on the same message. Don't make promises you can't keep.
3. Act on Bad News. When the elderly get sick they are often more able to see more clearly what is in store for them ahead. Use this as an opportunity to begin discussing options.
4. Visit facilities now. Take your loved ones around to facilities now. You will like some, and your parents will like others. Having an idea of where they would like to go will help. Eat a meal at the new community.
5. Get them to visit their friends who've moved. If you or they have friends who live in a facility, have them invite your folks over for a meal or social event. Seeing the good life in person can overcome a lot of negativity and doubt.
6. Make a deposit. This is an insurance policy. For a small deposit most assisted living facilities or continuing care retirement communities (CCRC) will guarantee a spot for your loved ones for a certain period, if they can pass a medical exam at that time. Even if they don't ultimately decide to move in they will at least have somewhere to go if (and when) disaster strikes.
7. Be understanding - but firm. Leaving their homes and giving up privacy and independence is a traumatic step, so don't ignore those feelings. But on the other hand be firm about your capabilities and intentions. If you cannot care for the parent, either in theirs or your own home, say so.
8. Stress the positive. Helen's advice on this point was great. Take your parents to a facility. Once they see what a good time everyone is having socially, with so many friends and things going on so close, they will want to move. She adds this is particularly effective with single women, who often face the triple problems of social isolation, declining ability to drive, and ready access to good medical care.
9. It's not your decision. Remember that this is ultimately your parents' choice--regardless of your strong opinions and preferences.
10. There may be other, better options. Consider that there may well be other and better options for your loved one. For example in-home care might be possible, keeping them in their normal home and avoiding a traumatic move. And of course, some parents live quite happily with one of their children.
Why Choose Senior Move Services As Your Personal Move Coordinator?
"The most important attribute of any senior move manager is that we have, in some capacity, lived the senior experience."
We've been the children of aging parents as well as the move coordinators for our own families. We know firsthand the complexity of an elderly move. Already empathic, compassionate people (if not, we're in the wrong business) the education and training we've taken as senior relocation and transition specialists helped refine our basic skills and innate desire to ensure a positive outcome for our clients. We're experts at helping older adults accept their needs for more support and finding ways to help them maintain some control over their lives.
Senior Move Services functions as the single point of contact during your retirement move. We shine at helping our clients choose what to take with them to their new home, packing it, unpacking it and putting it away so they can find it. Clients who use our services have been given the time to reminisce about their lives, helping them feel more positive about the move and eliminating their sense of anxiety. We coordinate all the various disciplines that can make up a move and recommend experts in their fields for the things we don't do.
Our affiliation with The MOKAN Senior Alliance makes it possible to recommend ethical, highly competent and trustworthy individuals who will search for solutions and solve virtually any problem. One call will put you in touch with the vast resources and skills possessed by SR Alliance members.
Senior Move Services functions as the single point of contact during your retirement move. We shine at helping our clients choose what to take with them to their new home, packing it, unpacking it and putting it away so they can find it. Clients who use our services have been given the time to reminisce about their lives, helping them feel more positive about the move and eliminating their sense of anxiety. We coordinate all the various disciplines that can make up a move and recommend experts in their fields for the things we don't do.
Our affiliation with The MOKAN Senior Alliance makes it possible to recommend ethical, highly competent and trustworthy individuals who will search for solutions and solve virtually any problem. One call will put you in touch with the vast resources and skills possessed by SR Alliance members.
Thank you from
Mardie and Tom Kirkwood
Mardie and Tom Kirkwood
Gerre--Our thanks for all your assistance--"forward, donate, trash, and packing, and unpacking, and putting away, and wonderful guidance, and good humor, and managing repairs! We really enjoyed our time with you--thanks! Our thanks to Cheryl, Bruce and working with Shawn, too!
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It's All About Control. Read David Solie's book How to Say It to Seniors to discover what seniors want and how to help them get it.
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