3 Ways To Make Moving to a Senior Community Easier
Deciding to move to a senior living community and deciding on a perfect place to enjoy your newfound freedom, you will face one more challenge: packing, tossing out, and moving. After all, most of us have accumulated decades’ worth of possessions. Where do you even begin? Here are few tips for making the challenge less challenging.
Get Extra Help
Begin by asking the assistance of family members or friends to assist you in making the initial decisions, if you do not want to do this alone. Many elderly people haven’t driven in 20 to 30 years, if at all. Moving is not only a physically demanding job, but it is also an emotionally draining one.
The decisions involved in planning and carrying out a move may seem to be too difficult to tackle on your own. At the very least, you’ll need someone to serve as a sounding board for your relocation plan. That is why you need assistance.
See The End From The Beginning
You’ll be downsizing, and you won’t be able to keep everything you have. Begin by selecting only the things that are non-negotiable. There are items that, like your favorite keepsakes that cannot be replaced. Is your old lounge chair still needed, or is it time for an upgrade? You’ll soon realize how much “baggage” you can live without. Don’t hold onto something until you know how it would work into your new living room. Resist the need to bring along disposable items.
Hire a Moving Coordinator
There is a relocation business in nearly every big city, even inside real estate companies, who will assist you with all of the logistics: from planning your home for sale (including renovations and landscaping), to packing and moving – even property appraisals and spending the money from the sale of your home.
When moving day arrives, they will also assist you with moving into your senior living community and arranging it just as you like it. Believe it or not, the step you’re holding back is the start of what will most likely be the best time of your life.
You are relocating to an area that is intended to fulfill your physical, mental, emotional, and perhaps spiritual needs. You’ll have less responsibilities and more time to spend with the friends and things you enjoy. Keep that in mind when you consider whether you still need all those sneakers or power equipment, and you’ll be prepared and ready in no time.
