Moving to Senior Living? We Make It Worry-Free
Get a QuoteSeniors and their families often face logistical and emotional challenges when moving to a senior living community. Our senior moving services step in to make this transition seamless. Preparing for this kind of life change involves sorting through decades of personal items, identifying what to keep, and managing move logistics. Seniors and their families manage these tasks while coping with the emotions and worries of this major transition.
Seniors and family members coordinating their move often overlook these challenges initially. That’s why hiring a moving company that is knowledgeable and experienced in senior relocation is vital for a smooth and worry-free transition.
At Interstate Moving and Storage, we understand that senior moves come with unique challenges. Our complete moving services meet seniors’ needs and expectations, turning the transition to a senior living community into a positive experience.
Recognizing Emotions During the Transition
A senior move is more than packing belongings into a box and unloading it somewhere else. Senior moves come with massive changes, where they are moving somewhere new after many years, are likely downsizing, and need help adapting to new surroundings. Whether you or your family member is moving to an active living community, an assisted living community, or a skilled nursing facility, these transitions have nuances that require additional considerations.
Senior residents and their families may encounter these challenges:
- The emotional challenges of leaving their home filled with memories behind
- The logistical coordination of sorting, decluttering, and relocating personal property and
- The adaptability of the senior resident to their new home, all while attempting to keep things personal and familiar in a new space.
Providing Moving Services Tailored for Seniors
Interstate Moving and Storage aims to identify and provide tailored services that address senior moves’ practical, emotional, and logistical challenges. We aim to make your move seamless and stress-free. This is accomplished by offering a wide range of services designed specifically to assist with challenges that come with senior moves, such as:
- Sorting and decluttering
- Facilitating estate sales and donations
- Packing and secure transportation
- Setting up a new residence
One of our move consultants will work with a senior resident or their family to identify the services needed for their move, including addressing any concerns they may have. They are also expert coordinators who work with our trusted partners to make your move go as smoothly as possible.
Watch our video to learn more about moving to senior living communities.
Sorting and Decluttering
A common challenge of senior moves is the preparation to downsize their residence. Many are moving to a senior living community from a family where they lived for many years. Seniors must sort and declutter their personal property to prepare for their new, likely smaller, residence.
Seniors must go through all their belongings and identify any that can be donated, sold, or tossed. However, many seniors find this overwhelming and emotional because their belongings carry memories.
Interstate Moving and Storage recognizes these challenges. We work closely with professional organizers who help seniors decide what to keep, donate, or sell. They also help with space planning once senior residents move into their new community.
Facilitating Estate Sale and Donation
During the decluttering and sorting process, professional organizers help seniors identify and separate items for sale or donation. Once seniors and their families agree on these items, estate sales professionals coordinate to sell any approved items.
Estate planners coordinate and manage estate sales events and donations of any unsold items. If senior residents agree to discard any of their personal items, estate sales professionals coordinate to have them discarded in an environmentally friendly manner.
Packing and Secure Transportation
Securing personal items, especially sentimental ones, is the most important thing on moving day. Interstate Moving and Storage takes extra care to protect sentimental and fragile items using specialized packing materials and techniques. Our team’s goal is to listen and apply special requests, especially if they involve family heirlooms or items of significant sentimental value.
Setting Up New Residence
Moving into a senior living community involves coordinating with additional parties, including the community they are moving into. Interstate Moving and Storage’s move consultant aims to minimize any disruptions caused by the move. To make this possible, our team coordinates with the senior living community to confirm any move-in requirements, unpack and organize belongings in the new unit, and ensure that everything is set up to provide familiarity and ease of access to the senior resident.
To promote familiarity and minimize disruption, move consultants work with trusted partners to ensure the new space resembles the previous home as closely as possible. Creating familiar spaces helps seniors feel comfortable and at ease in their new space.
How Interstate Moving and Storage Can Be the Right Fit for You
Senior relocation is a life-changing event that requires collaboration and communication from all parties involved. Interstate Moving and Storage has moved many aging adults, and our approach involves holistic and personalized components.
Senior moves are both a physical and emotional challenge. In many cases, the senior resident has lived in their current home for many years, and moving them somewhere unfamiliar may create worry about the process. In addition, there might be physical limitations to incorporate into the move plan. Mobility limitations—whether that is due to a wheelchair or other medical equipment are considered when designing the organization of the new residence.
The Interstate Moving and Storage team works closely with seniors, their families, and healthcare providers to ensure adequate space for medical equipment and mobility aids. If these items are in their current residence, they will be carefully transported to their new home.
Each move is tailored to fit the senior’s needs and promotes a respectful and dignified transition. This is possible through collaboration with our trusted partners, like professional organizers, estate planners, and logistical experts. We aim to provide full-service solutions to senior moves and ensure that all concerns and needs are heard, and this transition is viewed positively.
Schedule Your Senior Move with Interstate Moving and Storage Today
Whether you are coordinating your own move or you are a family member planning on behalf of a loved one, Interstate Moving and Storage is ready to make this relocation easy. Although senior moves come with challenges, it does not mean they should be stressful. With the right team by your side, your move can be smooth and worry-free. Call 800.745.6683 to learn more about our senior moving services.