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How are they managing their medications?
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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.
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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.
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Do you have siblings? If so, there is bound to be one that will think because you do not have a job that you are mooching off Mom and Dad. Are there resources for your folks to pay you? Caring for one parent is plenty of work caring for two, unbelieveable! I have two to care for (more than three years now) and siblings think me a mooch and even wanted to charge me room and board. And this has had a devastating effect on my finances! Yes, there are resources and payment to me will impact the estate that siblings are concerned about.
If your folks have resources, and want to pay you, get a care agreement in place that is compliant with Medicaid regulations before you receive a dime. After you have cared for them for a period of two years that has kept them out of a nursing home the house can be transferred to you without Medicaid penalty in some states. If you decide you want to do this then also realize that caring for your folks may be the last job you ever have. Most employers do not understand caregiving and look at it as a lapse in employment. Caring for our folks is important work and should be considered carefully. Make sure you get an elder law attorney to assist with the care agreement, powers of attorney, and anything else that may be necessary.
Your parents BOTH have dementia? One adult looking after two dementia patients?
Dementia doesn't get better, it gets worse and eventually one or both of them will need three shifts of care. So, you'll be out of a job and parents will be in a facility, Medicaid will pay for that but will recoup the house in lieu of payment. So you end up with no home, no job, no inheritance. That's VT he short version of the story we hear everyday. Except for the ones where the caregiver dies first. . That happens to 30% of all caregivers. Please don't quit your job.
Have you quit your job? I wouldn't. Your question is asked at least weekly and we never get a very good answer. Up in the search function, put Getting Paid. And read all of the posts about adult children that have moved in with their parents.
One way is for your parents to pay you to be their Caregiver. You will need to draw up a written contract, state the number of hours you would work, how much they will pay you, if they will pay for your health insurance, what days you will have off [if any].... but you would be responsible for paying your own payroll taxes.
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.
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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.
If your folks have resources, and want to pay you, get a care agreement in place that is compliant with Medicaid regulations before you receive a dime. After you have cared for them for a period of two years that has kept them out of a nursing home the house can be transferred to you without Medicaid penalty in some states. If you decide you want to do this then also realize that caring for your folks may be the last job you ever have. Most employers do not understand caregiving and look at it as a lapse in employment. Caring for our folks is important work and should be considered carefully. Make sure you get an elder law attorney to assist with the care agreement, powers of attorney, and anything else that may be necessary.
Dementia doesn't get better, it gets worse and eventually one or both of them will need three shifts of care. So, you'll be out of a job and parents will be in a facility, Medicaid will pay for that but will recoup the house in lieu of payment. So you end up with no home, no job, no inheritance. That's VT he short version of the story we hear everyday. Except for the ones where the caregiver dies first. . That happens to 30% of all caregivers. Please don't quit your job.