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Your Parents' Retirement...
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Y ou've got a real dilemma!
You're watching your parents blindly go down the road of completing each step towards retirement--just like their friends all did. It's obvious
that a traditional retirement is NOT what they want for the rest of their lives. It's
difficult to see them torn between what they have been told to do and what their hearts are telling them.
There comes a time...
Y ou know it when you
hear the trepidation in their voice when they talk about letting go of all their treasured possessions--the memories of a lifetime, leaving their
children and grandchildren and
everything they know and love to move to an adult retirement community. They try to cover up what they are
feeling. Every so often, however, you catch a look on their face. It is there for only a second but says to you "loud and clear" that they
really don't want to do any of these things.
T hey took care of you
all these years and you can feel the unspoken call for help. So what do you do?
S uppose you start by sitting them
down and telling them how much you love them and how very much you are going to miss them if they move away. Ever so gently, let
them know that they don't have to go and that you'll be glad to help them come up with an alternative plan that may or may not include the
full-time condo in the sun. They call it "aging-in-place." It means "retiring without having to move away."
T hat's where we come in.
The Solution...
We start with an assessment to help
them get out all of their feelings, wants and needs. The results are the guide for a plan that can make them truly happy! They get their results and are
amazed by how clearly their thoughts and desires are reflected. If they fit the traditional retirement profile, that
will be there, too. If not, you've saved them from making a terrible mistake!
W e have all sorts of tools and
exercises that they can work on if some things are still not clear. We also have a variety of coaching possibilities that can
include your parents and members of the family if your parents would like to have other family members as a part of the process.
A word of caution--the results
of our assessments (the RSP Assessment and/or the Life Options Assessment) are personal and confidential. It will be entirely up to each person
taking the assessment whether or not to share those results with a son
or daughter or even with their own spouse. If their decision is not to share, you will know that your parents have a clearer picture of their deepest feelings and desires. That will
be invaluable to them and help them to make the right decisions for their future.
Y our parents will feel a
sense of gratitude and relief that you have stepped in and given them "permission" to make the decision that they really wanted to make all along.
Your family will have the comfort of knowing that their parents and grandparents are nearby and can share in seeing their family grow up. Your
parents, themselves, will have sense of renewed independence and a feeling of renewed enthusiasm with all the options open to them.
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