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Is This Your Niche? Working with Seniors
Posted by Jane Woolsey on November 3, 2010
Where are you in your professional organization life? Based on the assumption that being a senior is as much a state of mind as it is a biological or statistical reality, you know that someday, the aging reality will strike. If not you directly, it will be parents or friends.
As an organizer, it may be hard to imagine the angst involved for many seniors in leaving a home filled with history, memorabilia and all the major and minor symbols of life, relationships, celebrations, grieving, holidays and reminders of how we have lived.
Guiding people thru this stage could well be one of the most personally and professionally satisfying services you will ever provide. To help seniors move beyond fear and sadness as they transition from one life stage to the next, is a huge contribution.
Downsizing!
Posted by Jane Woolsey on October 6, 2010
A word that scarcely existed in our vocabularies a decade ago, is now key to success as professional organizers. It is a word that strikes terror in most of us as it was coined to symbolize and rationalize large scale terminations as companies got smaller and smaller in hopes of maximizing efficiency and the bottom lines. It is now used in a variety of ways but still can cause otherwise successful men and women to tremble. Even though you may not be losing your livelihood, downsizing still implies significant change in lifestyle, living and working space and ways of organizing our world around us.
We plan to explore how this concept of “Down” and “Sizing” has percolated our culture. It impacts architecture, furniture design, use of public space, office design, in fact, just about everything that touches our day to day lives.
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