Life is a Series of Transitions

Helping Generations
Grow into Their Golden Years©

At Home Transition Specialists Inc.™, our mission is to provide a seamless blueprint for our clients’ ideal lifestyle plans and housing needs. Whether aging in place, downsizing to a condo or bungalow, moving to a multi-family dwelling or retirement community, or adopting a snowbird lifestyle, Home Transition Specialists Inc™ are here to help.

We offer personalized guidance and services for those aged 45+ who are balancing the care of aging parents with their own family needs, as well as retirees, older adults, and seniors. We provide customized solutions and packages to enhance your quality of life today while planning for tomorrow.

Our Certified Relocation and Transition Specialists™ and Lifestyle 55+ Service Provider Affiliate offer a professional and strategic approach that instills confidence and cultivates a trusted partnership for generations.

Age 45 to 54

  • People aged 45 to 54 often lead busy and fulfilling lives, balancing professional and personal responsibilities.

    Many are at the peak of their careers, holding significant positions in their workplaces and contributing to the economy.

    This age group is also heavily involved in family life, often supporting teenage or young adult children and sometimes caring for aging parents. This dual role can be demanding but also rewarding, as they provide guidance and support across generations.

  • People aged 45 to 54 typically live in a variety of housing types, including single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums.

    This age group often prefers these types of housing due to their need for more space to accommodate families, as many still have children living at home.

    Additionally, they may seek homes in suburban areas that offer good schools, parks, and community amenities.

    Financial stability at this stage of life often allows them to invest in homeownership, although some may choose to rent, especially in urban areas where housing prices are higher.

    The choice of housing is influenced by factors such as family size, financial situation, and lifestyle preferences.

  • Home Transition Specialists Inc™ helps individuals aged 45 to 54 proactively plan for future housing and lifestyle needs, ensuring they are prepared for the next stage of life with confidence and ease.

    By offering tailored guidance on home modifications, downsizing, and creating adaptable living environments, we empower clients to make informed decisions that support their long-term well-being, independence, and peace of mind.

    For those in the "sandwich generation," balancing the responsibilities of caring for aging parents while still supporting their own families, this planning is crucial.

    We provide expert support to navigate these complex challenges, helping clients find solutions that enhance their quality of life today while preparing for tomorrow.

Age 55 to 64

  • Those aged 55 to 64 lead multifaceted lives. Many remain active in the workforce while planning for retirement, focusing on financial stability and health.

    Regular physical activities like walking, cycling, and yoga are prioritized to maintain well-being and manage chronic conditions.

    Family plays a significant role, with many supporting adult children or caring for aging parents.

  • People aged 55 to 64 often live in a mix of housing types, including single-family homes, townhouses, and condominiums.

    Many in this age group prefer to downsize from larger family homes to more manageable properties as their children move out.

    This transition allows them to reduce maintenance responsibilities and costs.

    Some opt for condominiums or townhouses in urban areas to be closer to amenities, healthcare services, and social activities.

    Additionally, a growing number are exploring alternative housing models like co-housing or life lease communities, which offer a blend of independence and community support.

    These choices are influenced by a desire for convenience, financial considerations, and the need for a supportive living environment as they approach retirement.

  • Home Transition Specialists Inc™ assists individuals aged 55 to 64 in proactively planning for future housing and lifestyle needs, ensuring they are prepared for the next stage of life with confidence and ease.

    We offer tailored guidance on home modifications, downsizing, and creating adaptable living environments, empowering clients to make informed decisions that support their long-term well-being and independence.

    This age group often balances responsibilities such as caring for aging parents, supporting adult children in college or university, or providing childcare for grandchildren.

    We provide expert support to navigate these complex challenges, helping clients find solutions that enhance their quality of life today while preparing for tomorrow.

Age 65 to 74

  • People aged 65 to 74 often enjoy a lifestyle that balances relaxation with active community engagement.

    Many are retired or transitioning into retirement, giving them more time to pursue personal interests such as travel, gardening, and social activities.

    Health and wellness are key priorities, with regular physical activities like walking, swimming, and yoga to maintain fitness and overall well-being.

    Socially, they stay active through community involvement, volunteering, and spending quality time with family and friends.

    This age group frequently accesses healthcare services for preventive care and managing chronic conditions.

    Financially, they rely on a mix of pensions, savings, and government benefits to support their lifestyle.

    Despite facing challenges such as health issues, financial concerns, and potential feelings of isolation, many find ways to stay connected and engaged, leveraging technology to maintain social connections and access information and services.

    This period of life is often seen as an opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labor while navigating the complexities of aging.

  • People aged 65 to 74 often choose housing that balances independence with convenience and support.

    Many continue to live in single-family homes, especially if they have strong community ties and enjoy maintaining a garden or larger living space.

    However, a significant number opt for downsizing to condominiums or townhouses to reduce maintenance responsibilities and be closer to urban amenities like healthcare, shopping, and social activities.

    Some also explore senior-specific housing options such as retirement communities or life lease communities, which offer a blend of independent living and access to support services.

    These choices are influenced by a desire for a more manageable living environment, proximity to essential services, and opportunities for social engagement.

  • Home Transition Specialists Inc™ assists individuals aged 65 to 74 in proactively planning for their housing and lifestyle needs, ensuring they are prepared for the next stage of life with confidence and ease.

    We offer personalized guidance on home modifications to allow older adults and seniors to age in place. This may involve repurposing rooms, creating a one-floor plan, or converting a home into a two-family residence.

    We also provide full-service downsizing and relocating packages if moving is the safest and best option.

    Our comprehensive safety assessments help you or your family members live in an accessible and safe environment.

    Additionally, our consultation and planning services empower clients to make informed decisions that support their long-term well-being and independence.

    This age group often faces unique challenges such as managing health concerns, maintaining social connections, and adapting to changing physical abilities.

    We provide expert support to navigate these complex challenges, helping clients find solutions that enhance their quality of life today while preparing for tomorrow.

Age 75 to 84

  • People aged 75 to 84 often navigate a lifestyle that balances independence with the need for support.

    Many continue living in their own homes, cherishing familiar surroundings and community connections.

    However, challenges like mobility issues, health concerns, and the need for daily assistance can complicate this arrangement.

    Consequently, some choose to downsize to more manageable housing, such as condominiums or a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC), which offer reduced maintenance responsibilities.

    Others may opt for senior-specific housing options like retirement communities or assisted living facilities, where they can access necessary support services and healthcare.

    These decisions are driven by the desire to maintain a good quality of life, ensure safety, and stay socially connected while addressing the physical and financial challenges of aging.

  • Home Transition Specialists can play a crucial role in assisting people aged 75 to 84 with downsizing or aging in place. Here’s how:

    Downsizing:

    1. Personalized Assessment: Evaluate the individual's needs, preferences, and current living situation to determine the best type of new housing, whether it’s a smaller home, condominium, or townhouse.

    2. Organization and Decluttering: Help sort through belongings, decide what to keep, donate, or discard, and manage the logistics of packing and moving.

    3. Home Modifications: Suggest and coordinate necessary modifications in the new home to ensure safety and accessibility, such as installing grab bars, ramps, or stairlifts.

    4. Emotional Support: Provide guidance and emotional support throughout the downsizing process, which can be stressful and overwhelming.

    5. Resource Connections: Connect clients with resources like moving services, real estate agents, and financial advisors to facilitate a smooth transition.

    Aging in Place:

    1. Home Assessments: Conduct thorough assessments of the current home to identify areas that need modification for safety and accessibility, such as bathroom upgrades, improved lighting, or barrier-free entryways.

    2. Safety Enhancements: Recommend and oversee the installation of safety features, like non-slip flooring, grab bars, and emergency alert systems.

    3. Assistive Technologies: Introduce and implement assistive technologies and devices that can help with daily living activities, such as automated lighting, smart home systems, or medical alert systems.

    4. Care Coordination: Assist in organizing in-home care services, such as personal care aides, housekeeping, or healthcare services, to support daily needs.

    5. Ongoing Support: Provide ongoing support and periodic reviews to ensure that the home continues to meet the individual’s evolving needs and address any new challenges that arise.

    By offering these services, Home Transition Specialists can help individuals navigate the complexities of aging, ensuring their homes remain safe, comfortable, and suited to their needs.

Age 85 +

  • People aged 85 and older often face significant lifestyle changes and challenges, primarily related to health and mobility.

    Many in this age group require assistance with daily activities and healthcare, leading them to choose housing options that provide necessary support.

    While some continue to live in their own homes with the help of family or home care services, a growing number move to assisted living facilities.

    These environments offer round-the-clock care, medical support, and social activities tailored to their needs.

    The choice of housing is influenced by the need for safety, accessibility, and the ability to maintain a sense of community and social connection despite the physical and cognitive challenges that come with advanced age.

  • Downsizing:

    1. Comprehensive Needs Assessment: Evaluate the individual’s physical, emotional, and practical needs to recommend the most suitable type of new living environment, such as a smaller home, a condominium, or a senior community.

    2. Organizing and Decluttering: Assist with sorting through possessions, helping to make decisions on what to keep, donate, or discard. They can coordinate the logistics of packing and moving, making the process as stress-free as possible.

    3. Home Modifications: Recommend modifications to the new home to enhance safety and accessibility, such as installing grab bars, removing trip hazards, or adding ramps.

    4. Emotional Support and Communication: Provide compassionate support during the transition, addressing any emotional challenges associated with leaving a long-time home and ensuring clear communication throughout the process.

    5. Connecting with Resources: Liaise with real estate agents, moving companies, and financial planners to facilitate a smooth transition and handle any practical details.

    Relocating:

    1. Personalized Relocation Planning: Develop a tailored relocation plan that considers the individual's health, mobility, and personal preferences, whether moving to a retirement community, assisted living facility, or another type of senior housing.

    2. Coordinating with Facilities: Work with senior living communities to understand their services and ensure the new environment will meet the individual’s needs, including medical care, social activities, and support services.

    3. Managing the Move: Oversee the entire moving process, including packing, transport, and unpacking, to ensure a seamless transition to the new location.

    4. Orientation and Integration: Help the individual acclimate to the new environment, including introducing them to staff and residents, and ensuring they are aware of available services and activities.

    5. Follow-Up Support: Provide ongoing support to address any issues or adjustments needed after the move, ensuring the individual feels settled and comfortable in their new home.

    Aging in Place:

    1. Home Safety Evaluation: Conduct a detailed assessment of the current home to identify necessary modifications for safety and accessibility, such as installing handrails, improving lighting, or adding wheelchair ramps.

    2. Implementing Modifications: Coordinate the installation of safety features and assistive technologies that can help with daily activities, such as emergency response systems, adaptive equipment, or home automation systems.

    3. Care Services Coordination: Assist in arranging in-home care services, including personal care aides, medical visits, and household support to help manage daily needs.

    4. Regular Check-Ins: Provide ongoing assessments and adjustments to the home environment as the individual's needs evolve, ensuring that their living space remains safe and functional.

    5. Emotional and Social Support: Offer continued emotional support and connect the individual with community resources and social activities to help maintain their quality of life and prevent isolation.

    By providing these specialized services, Home Transition Specialists can help ensure that individuals aged 85 and older have a smooth transition to a new living situation or a well-supported environment in their current home.

Snowbird Services

For older adults and seniors who have vacation homes where they spend their winters, or for those who enjoy extended stays in their favorite destinations, Home Transition Services offers reliable care for your primary residence while you're away. We specialize in keeping your home secure and well-maintained throughout the season.

We offer affordable weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly check-ins.

Our Snowbird Services Include:

  • Assisting with packing and organizing your possessions.

  • Regular visits to your home to check plumbing, including running sinks and flushing toilets to prevent issues.

  • Ensuring the furnace and heating systems are operational.

  • Providing mail services, such as bringing in newspapers and mail.

Ready to return home?

  • We will perform a thorough cleaning and stock your fridge with essentials so you can immediately enjoy being back home.

Has Your Loved One Passed?

  • When a loved one passes away, Home Transition Specialists can provide invaluable support to families and facilities in several key ways:

    1. Compassionate Management: Offer empathetic and professional assistance during a difficult time, providing a supportive presence to help families navigate the logistics of sorting through a loved one’s belongings.

    2. Comprehensive Sorting and Packing: Efficiently sort, pack, and organize personal items, ensuring that valuable and meaningful possessions are carefully handled and preserved according to the family’s wishes.

    3. Respectful Disposal and Donation: Manage the disposal of items that are not kept, including arranging for donations to charitable organizations or recycling, while respecting the family's preferences and honoring the memory of the deceased.

    4. Detailed Documentation: Meticulously document all items before and during the process to ensure accuracy and transparency, providing families with an inventory and helping to address any concerns or disputes that may arise.

    5. Coordination with Facilities: Work closely with assisted living facilities to ensure a smooth transition of the resident's belongings and help with the facility’s requirements for the vacated space.

    6. Emotional Support: Provide compassionate support and guidance throughout the process, helping to alleviate stress and ensure that the transition is handled with dignity and care.

    By offering these services, Home Transition Specialists help families manage the complex and emotional tasks involved in the aftermath of a loved one’s passing, ensuring a respectful and organized process during a challenging time.

Kathy King

Certified Relocation and
Transition Specialist™
Lifestyle 55+ Affiliate

🏠 Supporting Boomers and Seniors in
Retirement Housing & Lifestyle Planning

🏠 Home Transition & Safety Coach for
Seniors and Caregivers

🏠 Educator & Entrepreneur

🏠 Senior Safety Advocate and Team Builder

Home Transition Specialists Inc™:

A Career Change at Age 50

  • I am a Regulated Health Care Provider. I have been helping people of all ages manage and resolve stress and pain related conditions. I have over 25 years of hands-on experience prescribing homecare and remedial exercises to help my patients improve mobility, safely and effectively. 

    I am an Educator.  For more than 25 years I have educated patients on ergonomics, body mechanics, and how to reduce or prevent injuries. Since 2019, I have been an Instructor, Educator and Clinical Supervisor in the Private College sector, teaching a new generation of Health Care Providers. 

    I am an Entrepreneur.  For over 35 years I have been in customer care, business ownership and management roles. I am passionate about empowering people, working with authentic colleagues and enjoying the freedom of being an entrepreneur.

    I am all these roles by design. I grew up surrounded by innovative and pragmatic people. I had many role models that fostered organizational and problem-solving skills.  I was always empowered to be resourceful and independent.  I learned to be patient, compassionate and connect with people. I also love to laugh and make others see humor in the small stuff.

  • I was inspired to shift careers while I was sorting and packing my mothers’ belongings.  It had been two years since my mom passed away.  My dad had finally decided to sell the house and start a new chapter and at the time my husband and I were living in my parent’s home while ours was being built.  We were all in transition.

    During this time, I was helping my dad prep the house to sell by sorting and packing certain areas of the house.  It was very overwhelming and emotional, yet therapeutic in some ways.

    It was both a blessing and a challenge to live in the presence of my mom’s stuff that was attached to so many memories.  Some days it was comforting and other days it felt like losing her all over again. 

    There were days of debilitating grief and depression from trying to navigate all the losses and transitions that both my husband and I had experienced during the previous four years. 

    The takeaway from this experience was that I felt a sense of purpose and peace in the tasks of sorting, organizing and packing other people’s stuff.

    In reflection, I was probably channelling my late mother. She was a Capricorn, raised by two Capricorns, therefore being organized and practical was in her genes. I was raised by all three of them so of course this trait has been a strong influence in my life.

    With a sense of purpose and peace, I reached out to my friend, Cassandra, and planted the seed that I would be interested in working with her as a Home Transition Specialist. 

    One year after that phone call and several conversations about our goals, vision and passion I stepped out of my educator position and into becoming, first the Marketing and Operations Manager, followed by licensee of Home Transition Specialists Inc™ for the Haldimand County, the place I call home. 

  • I love my role as Marketing and Operations Manager because it fulfills my need for creativity. 

    The process of creating content for our HTS Presentations has led us to an upcoming project that will be published and released in the Fall of 2024.

    We are creating a guide that encompasses our vision and passion for helping people, and it will empower aging generations to feel in control of their health and home throughout the many decades that are referred to as being a ‘senior’.

    I love my role as a licensee of Home Transition Specialists Inc™ - Haldimand because it fulfills my purpose of empowering, guiding, and helping people find solutions to achieving their goals.   

    In this role I can help people transform their cherished home into a safe sanctuary, or I can help them relocate to a new safe living space.   

    In either transition they can Glide Through their Golden Years because they will live comfortably, in control, and with ease.

    I love my role as Home Transition Specialists Inc™ - Team Builder because it fulfills my passion for educating, mentoring, and coaching. On boarding new licensees is exciting and rewarding.

    Helping other entrepreneurs build their legacy and contribute to the growth and expansion of this company is truly a gift.

 Give The Gift Of Peace of Mind

Often times what is hardest about a transition is not the actual work involved, but asking for help.  Give a loved one the benefit of help without saying a word! Let Home Transition Specialists do what we do best, declutter, organize, and offer support to loved ones who can really use a helping hand! Our wide variety of services will ensure your loved ones receive a customized service that is suited to their specific needs. 

*Gift Card is applicable on any project with a minimum of 3 hours of labour. Please contact us for further details on how we can help. Can not be combined with any other offers.  Limit 1 per project