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

by Nancy Wesson, Jacqueline Marcell (Introduction)

Overview

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

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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012567925
Publisher:	Loving Healing Press
Publication date:	11/24/2010
Series:	Aging With Grace , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Nancy Wesson is the owner of Focus On Space, a consulting firm serving clients in Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. She is an International Speaker, Feng Shui Expert, Professional Organizer and Trainer who offers a toolbox of skills to achieve success through creating and maintaining mental, physical and spiritual spaces to support wellness, productivity, goal attainment and life-stage transitions.

Her interest in environments, health and the mind-body-spirit connection began after she received her Master’s Degree in Audiology from the University of Texas. As an audiologist working with hearing-impaired clients, Nancy counseled patients regarding environmental adjustment to accommodate hearing loss and to improve quality of life. This experience prompted her to study the impact of environments on personal productivity, well-being and the management of personal resources.

Nancy’s background as a Certified Mediator, Victim Services Counselor and Quantum Touch practitioner is integrated into every aspect of her work with both corporate clients and individuals. Her work with elders began in earnest during her tenure as Director of the Texas Medical Assistance Hearing Aid Program, which was mandated to deliver hearing aids and related services to qualified seniors.

Nancy has lectured on the topics of Environmental Factors in ADHD, Feng Shui, Organization, Aging and Elder Care, Time Management and Intuition at the University of Texas, U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Justice, Shenandoah University, and the Texas Real Estate Commission as well as numerous seminars in both public and business venues. She has made guest appearances on KLRU public television in Austin, Texas and the Shenandoah University Television Production AT HOME. Her syndicated articles for the Austin Homesteader now appear on her website www.focusonspace.com

Editorial Reviews

A poignant, sensitive account of what worked for the author and her mother and what the author, using her own professional experience in creating livable settings, recommends to others who must help in that most delicate of all challenges, moving an aging parent away from the family home. Each chapter becomes a step-by-step guide to this new environment, with physical and emotional activities and exercises designed to demonstrate the principles of each step.

Diana DeLuca

I found it an invaluable resource not only for those who have to help parents move, but really for anybody contemplating a move in general.I could not recommend this book highly enough to anybody who is lucky enough to be in the position to help their aging parents move. "Moving Your Aging Parents" provides all the advice on the technicalities of moving you'll ever need; and it will also teach you some valuable lessons in patience, understanding and compassion.

Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson

As a thirty-five plus year veteran of health care practice as a Registered Nurse, specializing in 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

A poignant, sensitive account of what worked for the author and her mother and what the author, using her own professional experience in creating livable settings, recommends to others who must help in that most delicate of all challenges, moving an aging parent away from the family home. Each chapter becomes a step-by-step guide to this new environment, with physical and emotional activities and exercises designed to demonstrate the principles of each step.

Amazon - Diana DeLuca

I found it an invaluable resource not only for those who have to help parents move, but really for anybody contemplating a move in general.I could not recommend this book highly enough to anybody who is lucky enough to be in the position to help their aging parents move. "Moving Your Aging Parents" provides all the advice on the technicalities of moving you'll ever need; and it will also teach you some valuable lessons in patience, understanding and compassion.

Reader Views - Olivera Baumgartner-Jackson

As a thirty-five plus year veteran of health care practice as a Registered Nurse, specializing in 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.

Rebecca's Reads - Mary Durfor

I found it an invaluable resource not only for those who have to help parents move, but really for anybody contemplating a move in general.I could not recommend this book highly enough to anybody who is lucky enough to be in the position to help their aging parents move. "Moving Your Aging Parents" provides all the advice on the technicalities of moving you'll ever need; and it will also teach you some valuable lessons in patience, understanding and compassion.

Irene Watson