17/03/2024
Part #1
Making an emergency plan (information from my End of Life in Banderas Bay program). These will all be presented in different parts over the next couple of weeks.
Have a place in your home, apartment, condo (wherever you live here in the area) where all of your important information is kept. Your escritura, your passwords, your codes for banking & whatever else you have passwords for, the name, relation and contact of a family member OUTSIDE of the area here, a plan for who will receive and take care of your animals, copy of insurance cards, banking cards, will, life insurance policy, passport - anything that is important. It can be a safe BUT someone else will need to have a key or the code to open. It can be in a desk drawer, a dresser drawer, the freezer in zip lock bag, wherever you choose.
Now, choose a person of confidence (if you live alone). Someone that you trust implicitly who checks on you, who will know where these items are, who has a key to your home, who will be able to provide information to hospitals, family members.
If you are married, obviously each partner should know where all of this information is and include both of you. You would be surprised how many spouses do not know a lot of this type of information such as banking codes, ATM codes, etc.
If you live alone, gather perhaps 3 or 4 friends to do a "check in" with every day at a set time, via messenger, whatsapp. To check in with one another. If someone in the group does not answer/check in in a specific amount of time, then it is time to go to their home and see how they are doing. Don't make the group too big or it will take too much time every day.
Now, you have your homework for the weekend!
Thank you.
Next part: Contacting Emergency Services
