Senior Move Manager, Organizer, Junk Hauler, or Caregiver — Who Do You Actually Need?
You've been searching for two days and you've found four different kinds of companies that all sort of describe your problem and none of them exactly.
Here's the difference, what each costs in the Las Vegas valley, and — more usefully — what each one will refuse to do.
The four categories
What they do
Typical valley cost
What they won't do
Senior move manager
Plan and run a downsizing or move: measure the new place, sort room by room, coordinate movers, handle what's left behind
$40–$125/hr, or packaged
Heavy hauling and disposal; hands-on personal care
Professional organizer
Design systems for a space you're keeping — closets, pantry, paperwork, garage
$50–$120/hr
Move furniture, haul loads, make decisions for you
Junk hauler
Take away what you've already decided to get rid of
$150–$800+ per load
Sort with you, pack, reorganize a room, coordinate donations thoughtfully
Home care aide
Bathing, dressing, medication reminders, meals, companionship
$30–$40/hr, agency minimums apply
Move furniture, lift heavy items, haul anything — scope of practice forbids it
Labor + organizing service (what we are)
Sort with you, do the lifting, reconfigure rooms, haul and donate — one crew, one job
$30/hr per person
Personal care, nursing, anything clinical
The gap most families fall into
The four traditional categories leave a hole in the middle, and it's where most families actually live.
Home health, hospice, and home care aides handle the body. They are not permitted to move a dresser. Junk haulers handle the truck, but they arrive expecting decisions to already be made. Organizers handle the system, not the lifting. Move managers handle the plan, then subcontract the labor.
But the real job is usually all of it at once: sit with her while she decides about the china, carry the china out, drive it to the donation center, then move the bed downstairs so she can get to the bathroom. That's one afternoon and one crew, not four vendors.
Six situations, and who to call
"Mom comes home Thursday with a walker and the house isn't ready."
You need labor, fast. Walking paths cleared, a bed moved downstairs, furniture pulled back so she can turn around, the bathroom set up within reach. This is a one-day job. Call a labor and organizing service, and call before the discharge, not after. If she also needs help bathing or with medications, that's a separate hire — a home care agency — and you'll want both.
"Dad died and the house lists in three weeks."
Cleanout plus coordination. Family selection window first, then donations, then disposal, then cleaning. A junk hauler alone will leave you doing the hardest part — deciding — by yourself on a deadline. If there's real antique or collectible value, bring in an estate sale company before anything leaves.
"The garage hasn't been usable since 2009."
Labor, mostly. Some sorting, one or two loaded runs, and then a decision about whether you want it organized afterward or just emptied. If you want a system that lasts, an organizer is worth the money after the volume is gone — but not before.
"She's moving to assisted living in 30 days."
This is squarely senior move management: measure the unit, decide what fits, pack what's going, place what isn't, empty the house. Whether you hire a move manager who subcontracts or a service that does it all depends on how much coordination you want to do yourself.
"She's fine, but the spare room and the closets have gotten away from her."
Organizer, or a labor service if there's volume to remove first. If nothing needs to leave the house, an organizer is the better fit.
"He can't manage the stairs, forgets his medications, and hasn't had a proper meal in a week."
That's a care question, not a stuff question. Call a home care agency or an aging life care manager, and start there. We'd tell you the same thing — rearranging the furniture doesn't solve it, though it may be part of the answer once someone has assessed what he actually needs.
The honest part
We are not the answer to every one of these, and you should be suspicious of anyone who says they are.
We don't provide personal care. We don't do nursing, bathing, medication management, or anything clinical. We don't appraise antiques. We're not licensed contractors, so we don't install grab bars or widen doorways — though we'll tell you when you need someone who does.
What we do is the physical and organizational work in the middle: sorting alongside you, the lifting, the reconfiguring, the hauling, the donation runs. At $30 an hour per person, with a firm price before anything moves.
If that's not what you need, say so on the phone and we'll point you at who does. That costs us a job occasionally and it's still the right way to run this.
Call (702) 439-2352 or book a free walk-through. Henderson, Las Vegas and Boulder City.