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Moving Your Aging Parents: Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move

door Nancy Wesson

Reeksen: Aging With Grace

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Will you be ready when it's time...' Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results. In this hope filled book you will learn how to: Identify needs and desires to create a quality new life Cope with the Depression Era mind-set Create emotionally sustaining environments to nurture the soul Ready and sell the family home Ask the RIGHT questions to help divest of treasures Manage your energy and spirit throughout the process Determine when it's time to consider alternative placement Perform the ordinary in a non-ordinary way -- allowing you to preserve and heal family relationships Expert's Acclaim for Moving Your Aging Parents "A creative and inspiring godsend for helping Mom and Dad transition to the next phase of life. Valuable for caregivers, healthcare professionals, and seniors interested in aging with independence, dignity and grace." --Jacqueline Marcell, author Elder Rage, host of Coping With Caregiving radio show "What a truly remarkable and elegantly written book. The information is relevant for every relocation regardless of the age or circumstances of the client." --Sally B. Yaryan, Director, Professional Development & Education; Austin Board of REALTORS (r) "As a thirty-five year plus veteran of health care practice as a Registered Nurse, specializing in the care of the elderly, I offer my heart-felt endorsement of this excellent book. It offers concrete plans to follow and emphasizes the emotional and spiritual counterparts that transform seemingly difficult chores into acts of mutual joy, growth, and love." --Mary Durfor for Rebecca Reads Learn more about this author at www.FocusOnSpace.com From the Aging With Grace Series at Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com… (meer)

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I am so sorry that it took so long for me to read this book! My mother, who recently turned 99, had already moved into her apartment at the retirement village and I thought the book would be good for the next move, the expected move to the nursing home sometime in the future. However, this book would have been a perfect how-to book for her move from the family home. I wish my brothers and I had read this book before her move.

Now I am moving from my home of the last 25 years, downsizing into what I expect will be my home until I need additional care. So what I expected to be a reference book for my mother's move has become a reference book for me. I have a lot of stuff and it is hard to let go of so many things that have memories. This book has given me pointers on letting go, deciding what is important, and structuring my new home based on my changing needs. Ms. Wesson reminds us to treat these changes for our parents (and in my case, for myself) with respect and understanding. What an important message.

I recommend this book. It is well thought out, easy to read and has lots of really good information. (

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xorscape | Dec 10, 2009 |

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This was a good book, and it covered what I think are all the important issues - identifying their needs, coping with their emotional issues about moving, deciding what to keep and what to get rid of, selling the family home, and trying to do all this while respecting their dignity and individuality. What this doesn't cover, and what I wanted it to cover, was how to change MY parents' minds about moving out of their home and near to one of their children in the first place! My parents really are too elderly and sick to be living in the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere with the only hospital 45 minutes away, in an area where it snows a lot, where the nearest grocery or drug store is also 45 minutes away, with no reasonable bus service, no nursing homes (except 2 1/2 hours away) and no system of home health care in their area for the elderly. They chose the worst possible place to retire unless they were both in perfect health. HOWEVER, that does not make them even remotely willing to move, as this is the house they have been buidling for 45 years. What I wanted from this book it was unable to give me. It does give advice on how to start the conversation about moving for safety and health reasons, etc, but there really is no magic formula for getting them to agree in the first place. In the end, I have decided to respect their choices for independence over my preference of safety. I wish it were different, but I can't make it so. (

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bbkim | Nov 23, 2009 |

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This book has proved an excellent resource when dealing with upcoming changes in my parents life. They are both 84 and needing more and more assistance. We built our house with a wing for them when need be, and this book addresses changes from helping them downsize now to how to make a future move comfortable for them, my husband and myself. It also addresses care of self as the caretaker. It addresses every possible scenario and I will refer to it over and over along the way. (

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leahhenderson | Oct 14, 2009 |

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This is an excellent book for the "sandwich generation," those whose parents need to downsize due to illness or finances or loss of partner. It is something that should be read before decisions are made and supplies questions that should be asked and considerations that need to be addressed. Moving a parent or set of parents from a home of their own to another city or a smaller apartment, much less a nursing or assisted living situation, has its own unique set of emotional and physical disasters and joys unique to that situation. Also, it is a situation for which we have not been trained, and for which we have no precedent other than friends that have been through it. There are too few books out there, and this is the best I have found in covering both the needs of the aging parents, and the needs of the children or caregivers. (

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Book2Dragon | Sep 16, 2009 |

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My mother has Stage 3 Alzheimer's and lives with my brother. Within the next two years we will have to face moving her to a facility where she can receive the kind of care that my brother and I will no longer be able to give to her. I wish I had read this before we moved my mother from her one-bedroom apartment in a small town to a big house in a big city. There is so much more to this book than just suggestions about the physical move - there is attention to the happiness and comfort of your parent and as well as discussion of the "depression era" mindset, which I found helpful in understanding my mother's need to keep things like string, plasticware and paper bags. And there is a section for caretakers on remembering to be good to themselves. During this - inevitable - upcoming move, my brother and I will be more prepared for having read this book and won't make some of the same mistakes we made during her initial move to live with him. A helpful book and great reference tool that readers will return to again and again. (

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Will you be ready when it's time...' Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results. In this hope filled book you will learn how to: Identify needs and desires to create a quality new life Cope with the Depression Era mind-set Create emotionally sustaining environments to nurture the soul Ready and sell the family home Ask the RIGHT questions to help divest of treasures Manage your energy and spirit throughout the process Determine when it's time to consider alternative placement Perform the ordinary in a non-ordinary way -- allowing you to preserve and heal family relationships Expert's Acclaim for Moving Your Aging Parents "A creative and inspiring godsend for helping Mom and Dad transition to the next phase of life. Valuable for caregivers, healthcare professionals, and seniors interested in aging with independence, dignity and grace." --Jacqueline Marcell, author Elder Rage, host of Coping With Caregiving radio show "What a truly remarkable and elegantly written book. The information is relevant for every relocation regardless of the age or circumstances of the client." --Sally B. Yaryan, Director, Professional Development & Education; Austin Board of REALTORS (r) "As a thirty-five year plus veteran of health care practice as a Registered Nurse, specializing in the care of the elderly, I offer my heart-felt endorsement of this excellent book. It offers concrete plans to follow and emphasizes the emotional and spiritual counterparts that transform seemingly difficult chores into acts of mutual joy, growth, and love." --Mary Durfor for Rebecca Reads Learn more about this author at www.FocusOnSpace.com From the Aging With Grace Series at Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com

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