How To Move Your Mom®
How to Move Your Mom (and Still be on Speaking Terms Afterward) is the place for that conversation we all need to have – because moving your mom, your dad, or yourself isn’t just about moving things from one place to another. It is so much more complicated than that! There’s an increasing number of generations living at the same time…and there’s a lot of life to live in later life. HTMYM features top experts in senior living communities, placement agencies, realtors, and family members who’ve been through it all.Please join us as we explore the possibilities, complexities, and potential of later life. We’ll search for answers to the questions most people don’t know to ask so that all generations can flourish together.
How To Move Your Mom®
014: Moving and Memories: The Unique Challenges of Later Life Transitions - Paul Lawrence
This week's guest on How to Move Your Mom (and still be on speaking terms afterward) is Paul Lawrence. Paul is one of the co-founders of Senior Move Managers (SMM), New Zealand’s leading relocation business for older adults. After five years of operation, Paul’s company now has seven offices across New Zealand, with plans to expand to Australia. Senior Move Managers has made the Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Stars List and was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
Episode Sponsor:
Clear Home Solutions takes care of a lifetime's worth of treasures - and all the emotions attached to them - when it's time for you or your senior parent to move or make their home safe and organized for their later years. Got photos? We can organize and digitize those for you, too.
What you will learn from this episode:
- How senior care and retirement communities vary between New Zealand and the United States
- What senior move managers do - and why working with them makes moving so much easier
- Why and how moving older adults is so different from other moves
- Ways to help “challenging” clients through the difficulties of a move
Connect with Paul Lawrence:
LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/paul-lawrence-89818170
Website: https://www.seniormovemanagers.co.nz/
Connect with Marty Stevens-Heebner:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martyheebner/
Website: https://howtomoveyourmom.com/
Email: marty@clearhomesolutions.com