This article describes older adults' experiences of a late‐life residential relocation from a home to a long‐term health care setting. Findings from 14 participants who engaged in a focus group and/or an individual interview supported 8 major themes. Thematic experiences were related to precipitating factors prior to the move, risks and protective factors in relocation, and aspects of positive aging. Implications for clinical practice with older adults who undergo late‐life transitions are described.

Ethical competence, maturity, and autonomy are foundations of good counseling; however, ethical autonomy can be eroded by a risk‐management approach to ethics that tends to constrict counselors' creative responses to dilemmas. This article offers reflections on the notion of authenticity as described by existentialist philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger, as a means by which to balance risk‐management and reductionist perspectives on ethics and to foster ethical autonomy. Applications of authenticity to counselors' approach to ethics are suggested, as are limitations of this concept as a stand‐alone framework for decision making.

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Currently, 12.4% of the U.S. population consists of older adults (age 65 and above), a number that has tripled in the past century (Administration on Aging [AoA], 2008). Within the next 30 years, nearly 20% of the American population is projected to be over the age of 65 (AoA, 2008).