A dining table in an older Dublin home used as a working desk: an open notebook, a hand drawn floor plan, folders, house keys and a tape measure, with labelled boxes stacked behind.
Senior move managers · Dublin · since 2018

There is a great deal to sort out.
We hold all of it.

Avila Molloy and Maura Rooney take charge of later-life moves in Dublin: downsizing, residential care, staying safely at home, the paperwork, and clearing a house after a death. You make the decisions. We do the work and keep track of every piece of it.

Arrange a first conversation Call 086 838 3198
The work, in the open

What has changed?

Pick the one that sounds like your situation, and you will see how the work actually unfolds, taken from cases Seamless Moves have published. Every family is different and the real plan is built around you. This is here so you can see the shape of it before you ring anybody.

Staying at home, safely

Working plan · five steps

Based on a case published by Seamless Moves, in which a woman wanted to stay in her own home after a fall and a spell in respite, and her family were no longer sure the house was safe for her.

  1. 01 Two separate conversations, one at the house with the family and one with her on her own Who does it

    Seamless Moves

     Your decision

    Who should be in the room

  2. 02 Move the bedroom downstairs so everything she needs is on one level Who does it

    Seamless Moves

    Outside party

    Removal help

     Your decision

    Which room, and what goes into it

  3. 03 Small, low cost changes for safety and security around the house Who does it

    Seamless Moves

    Outside party

    Tradespeople

     Your decision

    What she is comfortable changing

  4. 04 A support structure put in place: cleaning, garden, personal care, company, transport Who does it

    Seamless Moves

    Outside party

    Vetted local suppliers

     Your decision

    How much help, and how often

  5. 05 Agree who the family rings when something changes Who does it

    Together

     Your decision

    One named contact

Ageing in place. Often the cheapest option on the table, and the one families assume is already closed to them.

A fall has changed things at home
Two conversations first, one with the family at the house and one on her own. Bedroom moved downstairs so everything is on one level. Small, low cost safety changes. A support structure for cleaning, garden, personal care, company and transport. One named contact for the family to ring. Based on a case published by Seamless Moves.
We need to find residential care
Establish what she wants and would miss. Keep the search local so friends can visit. Ring round on availability, medical needs and social fit. View three, and she chooses. Assessment arranged. Fair Deal and the rest of the paperwork prepared. Room measured, belongings chosen, room set up before she arrives. Utilities, services and post closed down at the house. Based on a case published by Seamless Moves.
The house is becoming too much
Estate agent in early, pricing strategy against the purchase timeline. Site maps, planning exemptions, BER and tax clearance assembled before they are asked for. Contents sorted into moves, sold, donated, gone. Good pieces found a home rather than a skip. Solicitor and agent kept in step. Utilities transferred, old services cancelled. Unpacked and put away. Based on a case published by Seamless Moves.
A house has to be cleared after a death
Walk the house together and agree what the family must decide. Every room sorted rather than cleared. Anything resembling a document set aside before anything is discarded. Estate paperwork gathered so probate is not held up. Sold, donated or recycled where possible. Whatever family abroad want to keep is shipped or stored. Based on a case published by Seamless Moves.
The papers need putting in order
Establish what is owned and owed. Accounts amalgamated. Income landing in one place. Will, enduring power of attorney and care wishes checked. One pack built: what exists, where it is, who to ring. Based on a case published by Seamless Moves.

None of these quite fits? That is normal, and most situations turn out to be two or three of them at once. Talk it through with us.

One case, start to finish

Forty-eight years in the one house, and a son on the phone from America

She had been recently widowed. Her health had gone against her and the people she used to see had thinned out. She decided herself that residential care would suit her better than staying put. Her family were all abroad, so the first call to Seamless Moves came from her son in the United States.

  1. We sat with her first, on her own, and worked out what she actually wanted from a home rather than what was easiest to arrange.
  2. We kept the search in her own area, because she still had friends nearby who would keep visiting. That single decision shaped everything after it.
  3. We rang round on her behalf, matched availability against her medical and social needs, and brought her to see three.
  4. She liked all three. She chose on the strength of how she got on with the staff in one of them, which is not something a brochure can tell you.
  5. We arranged the assessment, prepared the Fair Deal application, measured her new room, and worked out with her what would fit and what mattered.
  6. Her room was set up before she arrived. Then we closed the house end down: utilities, the services tied to the address, the post redirected.
Who you would be dealing with

Two people, and it stays that way

Avila Molloy

Co-founder

Avila's working life has run through business, consulting and voluntary work. In 2015 her mother became ill with Alzheimer's, and she saw at first hand what happens to a family when someone can no longer manage at home: how quickly the practical problems multiply, and how hard suitable options are to find when you need them quickly.

Maura Rooney

Co-founder

Maura is a chartered accountant who has spent years on the buying and selling of property. That is where the method comes from: the plans, the sequencing, the habit of having the paperwork ready before anybody asks for it. An unusual set of skills to bring to something this personal, and exactly what the job needs.

They started Seamless Moves in 2018 out of frustration with their own experience helping elderly parents and neighbours. Senior move management existed as a profession elsewhere in the world. In Ireland, as far as they could find, nobody was doing it.

What families ask

The questions that come up on the first call

Where do I even begin?
With a conversation, and then a plan built for your circumstances. If you want it, Seamless Moves stay with the process the whole way through, to the point where everything is unpacked and put away.
I can't physically do much of this myself.
You are not expected to. The physical work is done by Seamless Moves or by people they appoint. You make the decisions and they get carried out.
There is forty years of stuff in this house. How do I know it goes somewhere decent?
Things are sorted, not cleared. Valuable pieces go to people who will value and sell them properly, other items to charities or online, paperwork disposed of securely. The aim is that as little as possible is simply thrown away.
We don't have the time to bring our mother to viewings.
Seamless Moves draw up a shortlist against what she has told them she wants, and go with her to see them.
We don't know what any of these people should cost.
They have worked with the same solicitors, estate agents and removal companies for years, which is how they know what a fair rate looks like.
My father needs a nursing home under Fair Deal and we don't know where to start.
Given access to his paperwork, Seamless Moves can prepare the documentation the application needs.
Talk to us

The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing

It is usually a phone call, and usually it is an adult son or daughter who makes it. You do not need to have worked out what you want first. That is generally the thing we help with.

Call 086 838 3198