Senior Move Managers

These were the difficult questions that Valencia Peterson of Moving Solutions was helping a 65-year-old client decide, as they sorted through a Newtown Square pantry stocked with rivers of aluminum foil, bins of sugar, and dozens of cake mixes, all bought on sale.

Dorothy Kupferschmidt, a single woman with arthritic knees, was downsizing from a rancher to a continuing-care apartment with the help of Peterson, a packer for a “senior move manager.”

Moving Solutions, based in Havertown, was launched nine years ago. It has grown to 30 employees and $500,000 in revenue in the region.

“People think it’s about a carton. It’s about a body of knowledge specific to older adults,” said Margit Novack, president of the firm, which charges $1,500 to $3,500 for sorting and packing.

She also heads the National Association of Senior Move Managers, which she formed in 2002 with 16 members and now has more than 60.

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