When Elderly Parents Must Leave Their Homes
Are you, or someone you know involved with tending to aging parents who may be moving into nursing homes or other similar facilities? Try to keep this in mind: “Moving is moving.”
Moving is one of those words with multiple definitions:
1. to go or cause to go from one point to another; depart
2. evacuate
3. to change or cause to change position or posture
4. to take or cause to take action
5. to show marked activity
6. to make a formal request, application, or appeal
7. to change one’s residence
8. to stir the emotions
It is definitions 7 and 8 that we must all keep in mind for folks who are helping elderly parents, or ARE the elderly parents. Downsizing, especially when coupled with medical reasons for the change in residence, stirs the emotions in many ways.