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[quote=Anonymous]My brother and I just did this with our 77 year old parents. It started with a couple of years of suggesting that it would be good to downsize and ended with an intervention saying they had one year to find a condo and be in it, with our help every step of the way. There was tons of resistance and the down payment on the condo only happened after my mom fell and could no longer go upstairs in their home to their shower. It was so stressful and I had to do almost everything. They had never moved and were so stressed. My brother and I went many times over to help them declutter and pack, and many people were hired to help too.  All in all took the intervention in August - being moved into the new condo by the following August and the family home selling by November. They are so much safer now and truly relieved - but it was an exhausting situation where I had to do everything and often wasn’t in charge . . . Which made it stressful when they made bad decisions or dragged their feet.  So grateful they did it. But it was a very big deal to say the least and they should have done it at 70 to have been more cognitively and physically capable.[/quote]

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