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Transition Solutions You or parents moving into a retirement home/Frailcare and need help downsizing and moving; relocatin

Transition Solutions is an enterprise providing assistance to those who need to downsize, with a particular focus on seniors and the elderly, with ease, grace, care and empathy. We are here for you if:
- You are moving into a retirement home and need help downsizing from your family home
- You are living abroad and need help moving your parents into a retirement home
- Your elderly parent is in a step down facility and needs to move into frail care
- You already live independently at a retirement village but due to declining health need to move into assisted care at the same facility
- You are relocating and need help downsizing and packing for your move

Our services include:
- Organising, sorting, appraising and downsizing
- Compassionate support in deciding what to keep, to sell, gift to family, donate and discard
- Supervising professional packing, moving, unpacking and setting up the new home
- Arrange for storage
- Managing estate clearance and packing and sending precious memories to beneficiaries, local and overseas
- Providing related services, such as cleaning and waste removal
- Providing customised floor plans for the new home, if required, to see where furniture will fit

Seeking the services provided by Transition Solutions in such circumstances goes a long way to easing the anxieties of major life changes. Enlisting help from someone removed from the emotions of transitioning, while providing a professional and structured service, with a gentle and empathetic hand, could offer considerable peace of mind. We also provide a personalised gifting service - so if you are abroad when a loved one is celebrating a birthday or you just want to surprise them, we will purchase the gift on your behalf and deliver to them - even having a cup of tea and a chat if it is required. Sometimes, when in hospital or recovering from a health event, a chat and a gift is what is needed to lift spirits.

‘Before Forever After’There is a tender, in-between space towards the end of life. Not quite the past, not yet forever ...
09/10/2026

‘Before Forever After’

There is a tender, in-between space towards the end of life. Not quite the past, not yet forever after. It is a time when the big things fall away, and the small things become everything. A favourite blanket, a familiar clock, a family photograph in a wonky frame that has been looked at a thousand times.

It is a privilege for Shanoo and I to be involved in curating that comfort. We take the time to learn what truly makes each person feel safe and happy – not what necessarily looks tidy, but what feels like home. If that means the favourite mug each morning (might even have a little chip) or the sheep skin slippers with a little hole in the toe, then that’s what stays. Because at this point, its all about memories, the familiar and comfort.

To be invited into our clients lives at this point is not work to us. It is a profound privilege, and we thank the families for trusting Transition Solutions to hold these precious moments with care.

Title inspiration with gratitude to Helena Dolny, author of “Before Forever After: When Conversations About Living Meet Questions About Dying” (2017)

On the boundary of going National We try to remain within a radius of +/- 30km from our office area, but sometimes we ar...
06/10/2026

On the boundary of going National

We try to remain within a radius of +/- 30km from our office area, but sometimes we are persuaded to venture further. We took off early in the morning to the Vaal area which, being on the border of Gauteng, makes us almost a National operation 😂!

Not far enough for boiled eggs and chicken drumsticks wrapped in foil, but enough for our partnership to have a decent ‘unminuted’ meeting - no agenda, no minutes, an ad hoc huddle on the R82.

Everything seems to slow down the further from Jozi one ventures. We did do serious work, but somehow it seemed more like fun. It is also interesting to test the boundaries of our various service providers and their willingness to meet our clients’ needs and assist them to move to the other side of our province: Removal service ✅, auctioneers ✅, Hospice and other charities (local).

PS: we do manage national and international moves on behalf of our clients - but our own actual roadshow was a pleasant diversion.

The drawerWe recently moved a client into a modern contemporary style apartment as a temporary stop over until the right...
11/09/2026

The drawer

We recently moved a client into a modern contemporary style apartment as a temporary stop over until the right unit became available for her at her chosen retirement village. A really lovely unit - second (and top) floor with spacious lift, huge floor to ceiling windows, views of and access to a glorious green belt, very close to shops and restaurants. Perfect.

But!!! Only one cutlery drawer in the kitchen. One! And very few cupboards. Don’t people cook anymore? Is it all delivery? Who hasn’t got a second drawer like this? And, you know exactly what is in it, right down to the screw to the piano lid that fell off in 2004.

I had a look at the drawers in my kitchen when I got back and wondered how I would cope - but you do!! We make a plan - our South African heritage. Use a counter top cutlery caddy for knives and forks and spoons, a ceramic jar for cooking utensils, dish towels into plastic storage basket and kept in linen cupboard, rolls of baking papers and cling wrap into cupboard above oven (only basketball players can normally reach them). I also keep my coffee/tea mugs in a drawer so they would have to be relocated. And the electronics drawer - you know the one with cables, batteries, torches, old phones, bag sealing pegs , expired credit cards and pencils - this just has to go!

Done.

But still! One kitchen drawer!

Focus on joy No matter what the size of your home is: big, small, medium, the anxiety and heartache of sorting, discardi...
02/09/2026

Focus on joy

No matter what the size of your home is: big, small, medium, the anxiety and heartache of sorting, discarding and gifting precious possessions is the same.

However, most times the freedom of being unshackled of the stuff leads to genuine joy and lightness!

We like to work steadily with our client, from room to room, wrapping a lifetime in memories, not in the boxes. And the joy is what often allows our clients to let go, to set aside a piece for a granddaughter who will love it next, or send to auction to find a new wall to brighten, knowing that the memory does not go with the object, but stays with our client.

So if a hand lingers a little longer holding a book, a vase or a chair, we won’t rush you. It is that happiness that sometimes makes it easier to let go.

We know how hard this is. Flying to South Africa to move a beloved family member into assisted living means long flight...
05/08/2026

We know how hard this is.

Flying to South Africa to move a beloved family member into assisted living means long flights, big decisions, and so many emotions — all at once.

At Transition Solutions, we’re here for you so you don’t have to carry it alone. We handle the entire move with care, dignity, and empathy — from logistics and paperwork to settling them in comfortably.

That way, you get to do what only you can do: spend precious, unrushed time with your parent. No stress. No rushing. Just love.

If your family is navigating this from near or far, let us help make the transition gentle.
You focus on the moments. We’ll handle the move.

Our client had spent many years in a retirement village centrally located in Rosebank, and was justifiably anxious to let stuff go, to chose what to take, and which curtains to take 😊. With care and discussions, we navigated the downsizing and packing and set up the new home, carefully positioning the chosen pieces to feel like home.

And of course, family doesn’t need to live overseas to feel the stress of moving elderly parents. The need is local too!

Some delights!Bathroom has 1980’s glam! Floor to ceiling wraparound duck egg blue tiles - still so gorgeous - and 2026 G...
02/08/2026

Some delights!

Bathroom has 1980’s glam! Floor to ceiling wraparound duck egg blue tiles - still so gorgeous - and 2026 Granny charm!! A privilege to twirl around in this ‘decade captured in a bathroom’!

A visual treasure huntIsn’t it amazing how flower-spotting can shift the rhythm of daily life from rush-rush to the quie...
17/07/2026

A visual treasure hunt

Isn’t it amazing how flower-spotting can shift the rhythm of daily life from rush-rush to the quiet pace of nature.

I suppose that is why most established retirement villages have such gorgeous gardens - and a resultant sense of calm.

With me it begins with a visual scan, and then I see flickers of colour - and then there I go, off into the gardens. So beautiful!

80 years old and still gorgeousSometimes we have the privilege of working in magnificent older houses of Johannesburg. ...
10/06/2026

80 years old and still gorgeous

Sometimes we have the privilege of working in magnificent older houses of Johannesburg. They don't have to be Randlord homes to be magnificent. The craftsmanship, parquet floors and deep red entrance hall ceramic tiles seem to slow one down, breathing quietens and you relax. Strange.

No wonder the new owners were ready, as we cleared each room, to get started with their renovations which will be sympathetic to the original architecture. The sliding doors will remain, as will the floors. Just some modernising.

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