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Moving your elderly parents is maybe the most emotional type of moving that you’ll ever experience. As you know parents are more emotional or sensitive when they are old and it’s difficult for them to leave the comforts of their own home for many years. Telling them to move into a new place would be painful and heart breaking for them. You cannot simply approach and tell them immediately that you’re going to move them out of their current home because it would surely be met with opposition. Convincing your parents to move in with you is a big challenge. Not to worry, having a lot of experience in moving elderly parents for many years, San Jose Moving will help you on how to persuade your elderly parents move to a new home.

Here are some tips:

1. Always begin with recognizing what is happening and how your parents are managing in their home. Ask them how they are doing. Opening up these conversations with them would surely make them happy and know that you care for them.

2. Explain the situation and don’t ever push your parents to decide quickly about moving.

3. Make a detail of lists of furnishing and items that you will be bringing along with your parents and decide what to do with the rest of the household items.

4. Hire a professional moving company by your side to lessen the stress.

5. Let them say goodbye to their old home and the things that they are leaving behind

Hope these tips can help make move run smoothly for you and your elderly parents.

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