Downsizing and senior relocation in Chevy Chase.
Chevy Chase is a collection of historic, tree-lined villages on the District line, one of the few places in the region that is both deeply residential and genuinely walkable, with the Friendship Heights Metro on its southern edge. It also runs one of the country's best-known aging-in-place villages, Chevy Chase At Home. Vashon Hargrove helps Chevy Chase families sell cherished family homes and right-size into condos and communities along the Friendship Heights and Bethesda corridor without leaving familiar ground.
Walkable villages built before the car
Chevy Chase's sidewalks, shaded blocks, and clusters of shops were laid out for walking, and residents still do: to the Post Office, the hardware store, the restaurant down the block. Seniors here often find the neighborhood itself is the strong argument for staying close, even after they give up the house.
A model for aging in place
Chevy Chase At Home is a nonprofit village network that supports older neighbors with volunteers, rides, and social connection, one of the region's best-known programs of its kind. With that support, staying in the family home is a real, well-trodden option here, and the team can pair it with the home modifications that make it safer.
Metro, DC, and senior living at the border
The Friendship Heights station puts central DC a few stops away, and the Friendship Heights and Bethesda corridor holds assisted living and continuing-care communities. Chevy Chase families can move a parent from a Village home to a Friendship Heights condo or community and still walk the same sidewalks.
Communities & nearby areas
Families in Chevy Chase and the surrounding communities all work with the same plan: a respectful sale, an honest look at where to land, and a move that lines up with the parent's needs, not the calendar's. The team serves the whole region, so a parent can sell in Chevy Chase and land in a condo, townhome, or senior community nearby or in another state.
Village of Chevy Chase · Town of Chevy Chase · Section 3 · Martin's Additions · Friendship Heights · North Chevy Chase
Official older-adult services in and around Chevy Chase. Vashon is glad to point your family to the right door and build the move around what you find there.
Stay
Age in place safely in Chevy Chase: home safety, modifications, and the support to make staying work.
Explore staySell
If the Chevy Chase home should be sold, prepare and market it honestly and carefully, timed around the move.
Explore sellRelocate
Downsizing and moving in Chevy Chase, planned end to end, whether the next home is across town or across the region.
Explore relocateSenior Living
Independent living, assisted living, and memory care near Chevy Chase, with placement help that is free to families.
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Not sure which path fits?
Answer a few short questions to organize your thinking about staying, selling, relocating, and senior living. It is not medical, legal, or financial advice, and it does not presume an answer.
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