Moving is stressful, no matter who you are or what your age, but it can be especially challenging for seniors. The stress is real, and is often referred to as Relocation Stress Syndrome or Transfer Trauma. .
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Stress Free Senior Move
Planning, organizing, downsizing, packing, unpacking…moving is hard work…it’s exhausting! Not only is it hard work, but it can also be very stressful. Although it’s stressful for everyone, it seems to be even more so for seniors. How can that be avoided?
Improve Senior Balance Coordination Strength
As we age, often we find that our strength, our balance and coordination decline. But it doesn’t need to be that way… we can maintain or improve with these healthy tips…
Eliminate Stress Senior Move
Whether you’re moving into a college dorm, your dream house or into a senior community, moving, just by its nature, is stressful…but it doesn’t have to be…
Senior Move Mistakes
Is there a move to a senior community in your future or the future of a loved one who you will be helping during this “big event”? There can be a lot of anxiety associated with a rightsizing move, but much of it can be avoided it…
Choosing Senior Living Community
Questions To Ask When Choosing A Senior Living Community Retirement’s the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it’s time to enjoy my retirement.” – Patrick Macnee If the time has come for you or your loved one to […]
Senior Living Friends
So many seniors move into senior living communities each year…is this your year? Maybe you have already made the move…are you happy? If you’re not, these tips will certainly help your become so…
Communicating With Elderly
It’s important to maintain good relationships with our friends or parents who are growing older…we want to maintain those relationships, and most often it requires good communication. But it isn’t always easy to communicate effectively with an elderly adult.
Senior Safety
Unfortunately, well over 2 million elderly are involved in accidents in the home each year, many resulting in death, and the majority of them being attributed to falling. Here are some ideas to help make the home “senior safe”.
Senior Downsizing
To help you help your senior parents downsize without tears, fears and frustration, I’ve put together some ideas to help sort when it’s time to downsize: