How Senior Move Managers Can Help the Elderly Downsize

When elders are considering downsizing, an emotional task on its own, they should hire a senior move manager. Aging Americans often find moving stressful because they have grown accustom to their home over several years and accumulated large quantities of assets. Divesting themselves from their belongings becomes a very sentimental undertaking.

Senior move managers can help with these issues facing elders, including donations and sales and hiring movers. The movement of senior move managers is new and growing as baby boomers continue to enter this late life stage. They provide a level of trust that is needed when seniors begin to uproot their comfort level. Also, they bring organizational skills and a discerning eye for the management of certain assets. 

See Kaya Laterman, Helping the Elderly Downsize, NY Times, July 22, 2016.

Special thanks to Lewis Saret (Attorney, Washington, D.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.