Are you sure you want to exit? Your progress will be lost.
Who are you caring for?
Which best describes their mobility?
How well are they maintaining their hygiene?
How are they managing their medications?
Does their living environment pose any safety concerns?
Fall risks, spoiled food, or other threats to wellbeing
Are they experiencing any memory loss?
Which best describes your loved one's social life?
Acknowledgment of Disclosures and Authorization
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington. Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services. APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid. We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour. APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment. You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints. Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights. APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.I agree that: A.I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information"). B.APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink. C.APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site. D.If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records. E.This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year. F.You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
✔
I acknowledge and authorize
✔
I consent to the collection of my consumer health data.*
✔
I consent to the sharing of my consumer health data with qualified home care agencies.*
*If I am consenting on behalf of someone else, I have the proper authorization to do so. By clicking Get My Results, you agree to our Privacy Policy. You also consent to receive calls and texts, which may be autodialed, from us and our customer communities. Your consent is not a condition to using our service. Please visit our Terms of Use. for information about our privacy practices.
Mostly Independent
Your loved one may not require home care or assisted living services at this time. However, continue to monitor their condition for changes and consider occasional in-home care services for help as needed.
Remember, this assessment is not a substitute for professional advice.
Share a few details and we will match you to trusted home care in your area:
With the current confusion around Statins that seems to be gaining more and more momentum With public, rejection of the science the authorities need to Ask for a renewed Testing and evaluation of these drugs. Instead of patting everybody on the head that want answers, saying we"we know best".
Hmm, seem your full question,which is featured to the right, has been clipped when posted above. (Oh, I see, you have posted the question in two locations)
The biggest problem is that the doctor will not see any results in blood pressure readings from the meds already prescribed and will up dose, add another med, change med, etc. Then when someone like yourself starts to help your father keep on track with his meds, he'll be overdosed, or misprescribed. I'd write a note to his doctor.
Perhaps there might be some consequences for you if you are aware your father needs additional help, and you let him wallow and decline because HE will not take his medicines. You or another caregiver should give him his medicines to take at this point. Where is that line where your father is knowingly not cooperating (like continuing to smoke) and being too senile to remember to take pills?
That is the problem. He is able to take care of himself to a point so he lives at home. HIs refusal to take blood pressure medication will gradually cause his heart attack. He has not told the doctor of the refusal. I advised him to see the doctor and let him know. Problem step mother throwing a fit over seeing the doctor. Can she be held responsible if anything happens? Or will I for not pussing the issue?
There may be some side effect of the med that you are not aware of. Perhaps it gives him a head ache or make him feel light headed. The bp meds may have to be cut way back in dose. Actually, all his meds may have to be reduced in dose or replaced with fast acting rather than long lasting (which does not clear from the body.)
Look up Beers Criteria on the net. It is a protocol for one to use to help sort out drugs and eliminate what is not needed, and change where needed. Often dementia symptoms will reduce when this is done. mom improved with every drug we took her off.
I really don't know legal ramifications of "who is responsible" in this case. I'd just drop a note to the doctor and perhaps he/she will call to have your father come for a review of all meds. He might be happy to know that many could be cut...less for him to take, Perhaps he can no longer swallow pills easily, chokes on them, so some meds can be done by liquids or patches.
Are you his medical POA? If so, express your concerns directly to the doctor and have him talk with your dad. Is your step-mother for or against him seeing the doctor?
Against him seeing the doctor. I wish I was POA but at the present time he has not allowed anyone to be designated.
I have just finished a letter to his doctor expressing my concern, his refusal to take the medication, and problems with my step mother when it comes to making their environment a safer place for them to live in. I thank you very much for you thoughts on that one. I would not have realized I could do that.
I appreciate you help in this and will chat later, angelmaker
I'm glad to have helped. If your dad does not allow someone to be designated Medical and Durable POA before something major happens to him or he becomes mentally incompetent to handle his own affairs in a business like manner, then he and everyone else is in a bad situation where no one has the legal authority to do anything for his benefit. If he, like my mother, has business and financial matters separate from your step-mother then no one will have the legal authority to do anything. Does he have living will? Does he have a will and someone knows where it is? I deal with a step-parent too and am so glad my mother made me POA 8 years ago.
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
A.
I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
B.
APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
C.
APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
D.
If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
E.
This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
F.
You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
Statins that seems to be gaining more and
more momentum
With public, rejection of the science the authorities need to
Ask for a renewed
Testing and evaluation of these
drugs. Instead of patting everybody on the head that want answers, saying we"we know best".
The biggest problem is that the doctor will not see any results in blood pressure readings from the meds already prescribed and will up dose, add another med, change med, etc. Then when someone like yourself starts to help your father keep on track with his meds, he'll be overdosed, or misprescribed. I'd write a note to his doctor.
Perhaps there might be some consequences for you if you are aware your father needs additional help, and you let him wallow and decline because HE will not take his medicines. You or another caregiver should give him his medicines to take at this point. Where is that line where your father is knowingly not cooperating (like continuing to smoke) and being too senile to remember to take pills?
Look up Beers Criteria on the net. It is a protocol for one to use to help sort out drugs and eliminate what is not needed, and change where needed. Often dementia symptoms will reduce when this is done. mom improved with every drug we took her off.
I really don't know legal ramifications of "who is responsible" in this case. I'd just drop a note to the doctor and perhaps he/she will call to have your father come for a review of all meds. He might be happy to know that many could be cut...less for him to take, Perhaps he can no longer swallow pills easily, chokes on them, so some meds can be done by liquids or patches.
I have just finished a letter to his doctor expressing my concern, his refusal to take the medication, and problems with my step mother when it comes to making their environment a safer place for them to live in. I thank you very much for you thoughts on that one. I would not have realized I could do that.
I appreciate you help in this and will chat later, angelmaker
I'm glad to have helped. If your dad does not allow someone to be designated Medical and Durable POA before something major happens to him or he becomes mentally incompetent to handle his own affairs in a business like manner, then he and everyone else is in a bad situation where no one has the legal authority to do anything for his benefit. If he, like my mother, has business and financial matters separate from your step-mother then no one will have the legal authority to do anything. Does he have living will? Does he have a will and someone knows where it is? I deal with a step-parent too and am so glad my mother made me POA 8 years ago.