The next day, their client came home to a completely set-up apartment. She founded Moving Solutions in 1996. Three years and some 300 moves later, her company was named 1999 Business of the Year by the American Society on Aging in the small-business category. In many cases, the elderly person's grown children live too far away to assist, or are tied up with their own job and child-rearing responsibilities. Many senior moves are precipitated by illness, a fall or the death of a spouse.
Most clients also face the task of paring down the accumulation of a lifetime.
Armed with bubblewrap, boxes and checklists, Moving Solutions consultants help coordinate all aspects of a move aside from the actual loading and hauling. Novack stresses the need for caring treatment of people and possessions. Sometimes our clients are crying. Sometimes we're helping them pack a plastic bride and groom from a wedding cake. It has no material value, but it's priceless.