In a nutshell, my grandfather recently passed, he had an IRA with my grandma as the beneficiary.

I have the paperwork we need to fill out which needs to be notorized. Initially, we were going to wait a bit because of the pandemic (my grandmother is too high risk to take out right now) but with the stock market the past few days (and the next few looking grim at least) were going to have a notary come to the house to get it done sooner but is there anything we can do to mitigate any losses between now and when the paperwork is done and submitted?

I don't know how long my grandfather had the IRA, how much is in it, or how it was invested but I do know that this is the bulk of the money she will have to live on from now until she passes so...any suggestions? I'm hoping it will only take a few days to get the paperwork done and submitted am I worrying over nothing?

Thanks for any help!