Make It Easier for the People Who May Have to Help You | Raymond Lavine

Raymond Lavine (00:00) One of the things that we're doing is we're going through a home refreshing and we're updating things both for home modifications. And we've made a decision that we want, no matter what happens, as long as we can to stay in our house and not go to a retirement village or something else. I'm not a retirement village material. People say that if you've been... in many different relationships or marriages, maybe examine yourself. Maybe you're really not relationship material. And I Stefan Lindberg-Jones (00:34) Hmm. Raymond Lavine (00:34) just, I know from my own behavior, I'm not a retirement village or care center material. maybe Stefan Lindberg-Jones (00:41) Ha ha ha! Raymond Lavine (00:44) it will change, but the point is that we're refreshing on it. We have home modifications so that no matter what happens that we can stay in our home and And we have sufficient support system funds to pay for caregivers to help us with things that we cannot do now and in the future. The other thing that I'm also is we're doing updating our estate plan and also I'm getting my important documents in order, both digitally and in files. and letting my family know where things are located. Because that's the worst thing that happens in a family issue. Somebody becomes ill. You don't even know what their social security number is. You don't know what Stefan Lindberg-Jones (01:31) No. Raymond Lavine (01:32) health information. mean, some basic things. But then it goes on to, I know your accounts that I can pay your bills? And it used to be, it was easy. You got the information in the mail. Now it's paperless, so do you have the passwords? Stefan Lindberg-Jones (01:48) Hmm. Raymond Lavine (01:49) So I now have a digital service that I'm updating information so that my family, I'm not able to do it, that they can go and get the passwords and they have the documents and they know where my medical information. A lot of people have, hi, here's my phone. Now, that I don't have, that I have in physical form. I have it in my wallet that I could show people. I just don't have the patience to say, well, let me look on my phone. It's just, that's just not, and a lot of people do when they're good at it and I'm not, and if it works for, but the thing is supposing you forget your phone or supposing your phone isn't working. Stefan Lindberg-Jones (02:35) Mmm. Raymond Lavine (02:37) I'm a backup person. It's just, just how, that's just how I deal with it. Because if not, gets, it's sometimes it'll give me personal anxiety if I can't, cause information, especially in this day and age is, is important.