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What are your tips for staying independent at your own home?

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I don't recall this being mentioned:
We need to develop and maintain our computer competency: We need to know how to operate our digital devices, we need to be aware of dangers of on line criminals and we need to keep our devices reasonably up to date.
We also need to have backup charging batteries in case of power outage.

I keep online money simple:
I pay with Paypal as much as possible.
I have two credit card accounts, one I carry, one stays home in case the other is lost.
And my credit cards are really debit cards, so there is no chance of over charging and collecting penalties. (If I accidentally go over the account balance, my bank pays out from a savings account, no charge.)

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@edsutton Agreed. More and more things are online only. One small example. Our state implemented a property tax relief program a few years ago. The only way to enroll was online. No in person, no telephone. Only on-line. The organization I was working for set up a call in system for elders that either had no online access or weren’t confident do the forms. They gave us the info and we did the digital work for them.