Quality care is of utmost importance when selecting a facility for yourself or your parent. Below are tips on evaluating assisted living facilities, memory care and independent living facilities. Assisted living facilities can be very expensive, so narrowing down…
Finding a skilled nursing facility or nursing home after a hospital stay can be daunting. Follow these steps and tips to make the process easier. Click Here for the full article by Patricia Mertz Esswein Consider What you Can…
In addition to $600 checks for eligible adults and children, the December 2020 stimulus bill includes several provisions that help older Americans. For one, there’s money for rental assistance, and the eviction moratorium was extended to January 31, 2021. The…
The SECURE Act (Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019), aimed at improving people’s retirement security, was signed into law at the end of 2019. Some key changes of the SECURE Act (http://bit.ly/2HwrLfV) affect Individual Retirement…
It is typically a sudden illness or fall that causes us to be faced with helping our parents to sell their home and move to a safer and more comfortable environment. A time when we are least prepared to…
Thank you Michelle for selling our mom’s house and managing everything along the way. Thank you for your support and for walking us through this entire process, answering our questions and addressing our concerns from the other side of…
Finding a Home for the Contents of your Office Since we are based in Newton, MA some of these resources are specific to this town. You should be able to find similar resources in your town. Make sure you…
Collect up boxes now. You will need them to box up stuff for charity. Start cleaning out the attic, garage and basement EARLY! I would suggest you start with these first. This is where the stuff that is most…
As you go through rooms, closets, attics, basements and garages you must ask yourself this one question – do I want or use this enough to move it to my next house? If the answer is no – then…
You will likely have seen a lot of good checklists on what to do to get your home ready for a spring home sale. Most of those, however, focus on general cleanup and staging right before you go on…