Guided Planning for Older
Adults and Your Families
Our Services
Advisory
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.
Project Management - Partial or Full Project Management
We will partially or fully manage your home remodel, move, or adaptation.
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, and initiating contact and facilitating necessary meetings.
You will be managing the project scope, timeline and budget.
Pricing - We will have an initial meeting to determine the high-level scope, timeline and budget, then I will compose a proposal. Once we agree on the proposal and sign the contract, we will begin to work together.
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 recommendations, 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
Multi session, project-based Project Management to support you and your family in the process of planning and taking action for life transitions. Together we will identify what you want, need and require to take the next steps. I will support you in a Partial or Full Project Management role, offering resources, references and contractor lists, facilitating necessary meetings, managing contractor and stakeholder engagement, timeline and budgetary requirements.
Pricing - We will have an initial meeting to determine the high-level scope, timeline and budget, then I will compose a proposal. Once we agree on the proposal and sign the contract, we will begin to work together.
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 sustainability certifying of healthcare, higher education and government architectural 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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