Family Transition Guides
Anna Calderwick
Author of practical guides for complex family transitions
Anna Calderwick creates practical guides for families navigating complex life transitions.
The guide
A Family Transition Guide
Moving an Aging Parent
Planning the Move, Organizing the Family and Helping Your Parent Settle In
A practical guide for the family member who is organizing a parent’s move: what has been decided, who is doing what, what to bring, how to work with movers, and how to help your parent settle into the new home. It organizes decisions and information; it does not give medical, legal, financial, tax, real-estate or care-placement advice.
Its aim is to show you the shape of the whole move before you are asked to act on any part of it.
What the guides do
A Family Transition Guide does not make difficult decisions for you. It gives you a clearer system for making, organizing and acting on them.
- DECIDE
Clarify decisions
Separate what has been decided from what has only been discussed, and see whose decision each one is.
- RECORD
Organize information
Keep preferences, answers and arrangements in one place, written down and dated, instead of in separate memories.
- OWNER
Coordinate responsibilities
Give every task one named owner, so that nothing is done twice and nothing is left for someone else.
- NEXT
Turn the unfamiliar into next steps
Work in the order the transition actually needs, with a clear sense of what can safely wait.
Family Transition Guides
Practical guidance for the responsibilities nobody teaches you how to manage.
Practical systems for managing complex family responsibilities and life transitions.
More clarity.Fewer loose ends.A manageable next step.