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The Importance of Physical Check-Ins
The short answer
Carly Whiteside's office often sees vulnerable people in Arizona with no family in state or within about an hour. Someone can seem fine during a 5- to 10-minute phone call, while a home visit may show clutter, disarray or no food. In her words, there is no substitute for checking on someone in person.
From the full episode Common Probate Litigation Issues in Arizona (20:11).
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Transcript
Typically what we see is the vulnerable person is here and no family is in state, or they're not close. Close is like an hour. So we're in the Phoenix metro area. So if a family member lives in Tucson, it's a little bit difficult for them to get up and everything else.
And as I've discussed on other episodes, when you call someone over the phone, it's really easy for them to mask that everything is fine, everything's great, they're good for the 5 to 10 minutes they're on the phone.
And then, you know, when you actually go to the house, it's cluttered, it's disheveled, there's no food. There's no substitute for actually physically checking on someone.
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