Note: This is a guest post from a colleague of mine, Harris Loeser, that I felt was an appropriate topic for my site but from a different angle that I have not really touched on: technology concerns for those in their golden years.
I just spent a long weekend moving my kids’ high tech Grandfather (my Dad)Â and low tech Grandmother (both 88 yrs old) from their condo of the last 15 years to an assisted living facility. In the course of this move, I re-learned one key lesson which made this move go relatively smoothly.
Allow me to explain that my Dad is not a technologist, but a lawyer and a gadget freak. So, he has three Macs, wireless, dynamic digital photo albums on the apartment walls, sets up his own Tivo, has his iPhone automatically synching with his Prius, and he knows the guys (and gals) at the Apple store by first name.
As most of you can imagine, moving house at 88 is fairly traumatic for many reasons, not the least being the disruption in carefully remembered locations of everyday items, both digital and physical.
In this case, we hired a “life transition” consultant who arranged the move and all the details of cutting their household belongings in half. This was done highly competently and with almost no glitches.
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