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Physical and mental challenge: who accompanies and supports you as you move into sheltered housing

Leaving the house where you have lived for many years is a complex task.

Therefore, there are professionals whose job it is to help seniors take this significant step.

How is the process conducted and what do the tenants themselves say about the issue?

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Wednesday, 25 November 2020, 13:10

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In the video: How do you successfully complete the move from home to sheltered housing?

(Walla! NEWS Studio)

Separation and moving from the residence after many years to the sheltered housing requires physical and mental support.

It is a parting from memories and objects, and from an entire period of life, for a new beginning.

Therefore, in the sheltered housing houses there is an array of accompaniment and support for new tenants, to make them feel that they have reached a warm environment, their new home.

As part of this arrangement, there are professionals who help the new tenants, even at the stage of separation from their previous home and the organization of objects, through the transition itself to the organization of the new home in sheltered housing.

Naama Shergel, director of the Home Organization Center, came to the studio to explain how the preparation for such a move, from home to sheltered housing, is going: "It is very important to prepare those who move, because a couple or single is at home for many years and the place is full of memories and experiences." "You have to decide what to take and what to do with things and it floods a lot of things, emotionally and mentally. It is also a physical transition, that needs to be organized. Therefore, we must support those who take this step."

"I come home and sometimes it takes quite a while to help them get used to the idea that they will have to part with some of the belongings. A lot of times they do some yard sale and pass beautiful things, which they are not willing to throw away in any way. The main thing is knowing the belongings they love keep coming. Get organized for this process for many months. I recommend everyone who moves to take this time.

There is the Tzahala mansion, a lovely place that I work with regularly. They realized how important this escort is and on the day of the move I get there and help the new tenants unload all their cartons. "So that already that evening they will feel at home - that the bed is offered, there is a bedroom, a kitchen, the house stands on its own. There is something soothing in this feeling, when you do not see cartons and clutter around. You take out all the objects you have chosen to bring and showcase them."

"In one case we unpacked things and one of the tenants took out reddish braids, which seemed clearly unreal, but with a lot of nostalgia and excitement she said these were braids she found when she vacated her mother's house. These are braids that her mother cut for both when there was no water in Jerusalem in "H.

After so many years, it has been amazingly preserved. "

The transition is full of challenges, both physical and mental.

Therefore, guidance and assistance is needed (Photo: ShutterStock)

Later in the edition, Raanan Baranowski went out to talk to tenants about the separation from the house and the move to the sheltered housing.

"At first I had tears in my eyes," said Haim Mor Haim, who currently lives at Gil Paz 'house in Kfar Saba.

"You're leaving a life enterprise, so it was very difficult. The first days are a perfect astonishment, of the place and the service they receive. Accompany us for the first two weeks all the time and it is to this day like that. Giving service to a tenant is a sacred goal here. "The children tell us that too."

"Moving is not a simple thing," added Sarah Gutter Davidson, of the Poleg estate.

"It's hard for me to say goodbye to objects."

Uzi Davidson, on the other hand, said: "We invited the movers, put the things on the car and drove. I had no sections, I had no emotional difficulty leaving the house," and Sarah adds: "Uzi's adaptation here amazed me. We did not just adapt, we made connections "I did not think that after the age of 70 I would find such true friendships."

At Ahuzat Tzahala, the tenant Bina Meir testified: "My late husband would paint and sculpt amazing things and I took some pictures with me and I constantly look at them and feel that I am at home."

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