Guided Planning for Older
Adults and Your Families
Social Wellness
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Emotional Wellness
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Physical Wellness
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Occupational Wellness
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Environmental Wellness
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Spiritual Wellness
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Financial Wellness
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Intellectual Wellness
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Social Wellness | Emotional Wellness | Physical Wellness | Occupational Wellness | Environmental Wellness | Spiritual Wellness | Financial Wellness | Intellectual Wellness |
Our Services
Advising
We will share resources, a road map, ideas and feedback related to your families’ particular needs.
Consulting
We will support your next steps by resourcing and connecting you with various support systems, movers, contractors and builders to help manage your circumstances, whether aging-in-place, moving, or solving other family or health-related needs.
Membership (coming soon)
Mini-courses designed to simplify life, and reorient you towards enjoyment, fulfillment, and clarity. Caregiver CoWorking designed for designated accountability and administrative work. Digital and Physical Workbooks to help you work through various aspects of your current circumstances.
Multi Session, Project-Based Consulting to support you and your family in the process of planning for life transitions. Together we will identify what you want, need and require to take the next steps. I will support you in a coordination role, offering resources, references and contractor lists, initiating contact with potential contractors or partners and facilitating necessary meetings.
Consulting is best suited for specific shorter-term, focused projects, like planning for a bathroom remodel, a move to a retirement community, or adding an accessibility feature in the home.
Key Takeaways:
Road Map of the Project
Project Gates and Guardrails
Resource, Reference and Contractor Lists
Meeting Facilitation When Needed
You will be managing the project scope, timeline and budget. I will be guiding and mentoring you in the process, but I will not be doing the project management. Consulting hours include meetings, and project-based work.
$250/hour
A high level approach to identifying your needs, vision and ideas for your future. I will listen, and together we will ideate. I will share ideas, resources and suggestions, after our session it is your responsibility to take actions that work best for you.
One Hour Sessions Available for Advising.
Key Take Aways:
Clarity
An Outline Synopsis of our Conversation
Conversation-Specific Resources
Clear Next Steps
$125/Hour
About
Little River Consultancy
Little River Consultancy is here to support elders and their families through thoughtful, proactive life transitions by using evidence-based practices to make intentional decisions that lead to an increased quality of life. Whether you are starting the process to wonder “what’s next” or you have an immediate housing or transition need, I can support you and your family through the process.
About Brooke Saba McDowell
Brooke is an environmental gerontologist, sustainability specialist and community builder. She has a masters degree in gerontology, and project management experience on almost a million square feet of architectural projects related to sustainability certifying of healthcare, higher education and government projects. She has traveled the world learning about how people live and thrive in community, focusing on intergenerational engagement and connection, food access, and culture. Brooke has studied different sustainable and regenerative building practices and community practices in Cambodia, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Netherlands, India, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. She is passionate about healthy buildings, people, and the planet.
Brooke looks at the world holistically through a human-nature lens and honors the intricate web of connections between all living things past, present, and future. Outside of gerontology consulting, Brooke is a printmaker and multimedia artist, hosts community gatherings, volunteers with a number of organizations and hosts sound baths at studios and spaces around the USA.
Education:
MS Gerontology, BA Human Development
Certifications:
Project Management Professional (PMP), WELL AP, Living Future Accredited, Permaculture Certification, Yoga Teacher Trained
Work Experience:
Building Sciences within Architecture and Engineering field, Research, Nonprofits, Food Access, Retirement Communities, Entrepreneurship.
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