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Why Prolonged Visits Reveal the Truth
The short answer
The speaker says people usually 'wiggle in' when family calls or texts but no one visits to look the person in the eye, see their surroundings and talk at length. In her experience, a 5-to-15-minute call can convince you all is fine, but over half an hour to a few hours, the mask falls.
From the full episode Common Probate Litigation Issues in Arizona (20:11).
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Transcript
What I see when people are able to kind of wiggle in is when family is not making the actual physical check-ins. They're talking on the phone, they're texting, but nobody's actually going to the house and looking in this person's eyes and looking around at their environment and having a prolonged conversation.
Typically, what I've seen is people will be on the phone for 5, 10, 15 minutes, and then they get off the phone. And that's kind of the amount of time somebody can use to, say, convince you everything's fine.
But when you're with someone for half hour, hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, the mask falls and they're not able to kind of keep up the front that everything is okay.
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