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Moving doesn’t have to be stressful. Below are tips to break up the process into manageable steps:

Start designing your new home; think with the end in mind and focus on how you want your new life to be. Create a floor plan and image what your routine and activities will be.

Rightsize; this step includes the identification of the most important and necessary items that will go to the new location.

Pack and Prepare; organize, label, wrap and protect items, place in boxes and transport.

Move; okay, so this part is not so fun, remember to use your legs, not your back. Be nice to those who are helping!

Settle; unpack, decorate and get comfortable in your new home. Enjoy!

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The Village of Palmerton is a senior living community offering individualized personal care services that address the physical, social, and spiritual needs of each resident. For more information or to request a tour visit http://www.thevillageatpalmerton.com/ or ...

For mature adults living in Carbon County including Albrightsville, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Nesquehoning, Palmerton, Summit Hill, Weatherly and the surrounding towns, there are multiple options when seeking care for a loved one. These options range in scope and cost. Local senior care options are outlined below. 

Non-Medical Home care is care that is provided in the client’s home.  The care is either personal care or companion care. Personal care includes assistance with activities of daily living like assistance eating, bathing, dressing, grooming and more. Companion care is less hands-on in nature and includes conversation, games, errands, light housekeeping, transportation and accompaniment to doctors appointments and more. Non-medical home care ranges in cost from about $18 / hour to $25 / hour. Non-medical home care is ideal for those needing only a few hours per week as the costs increase as hours go up. Non-medical home care is largely private pay, meaning that individuals ...

Around the county the terms assisted living, personal care and senior living are used frequently. Generally speaking they refer to communities where older adults live in private or semi-private rooms, either independently or with some level of assistance from staff for activities of daily living. Senior living is a categorical term referring to a genre of living arrangements for older adults. Within senior living, there is assisted living and personal care.

At the Village at Palmerton (the Village), many families from New York, New Jersey and other out-of-state caregivers refer to the Village as assisted living.  The Village at Palmerton could be considered assisted living in the spirit as others understand it in their home state, but under Pennsylvania regulations the Village is a personal care home.

In Pennsylvania prior to 2011, the terms Assisted Living and Personal Care were interchangeable. Officially, Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare issued licenses entitled "Personal ...