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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.
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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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Hard to get enough help to cover all of patient's needs. Caregivers get sick, need vacation, etc. and then you might be left in a last minute situation of needing a caregiver more quickly than is possible.
It can all depends on the support system you have and what you have to do. For some in-home care is pretty easy. For others not so much. I thought I had it easy. Although friends of mine thought otherwise. There are personal considerations to think about. What will you NOT do? and What CAN you do? Is your house set up for caregiving? Wide halls?, large bathroom that 2 or more people can be in and accomplish what needs to be done, stairs? (dangerous or impossible for someone that has to use a walker or wheelchair) carpeting? (can be difficult with walker or wheelchair)
Can you or the person you are caring for afford help? Will this be your full time job? Are you quitting a job in order to do this? (probably not a great idea) Will you get paid for caregiving? You should,.
I made the decision when my Husband was diagnosed with dementia that I would keep him home as long as it was safe to do so. By SAFETY I am mean I would keep him home as long as it was safe for HIM for me to care for him and as long as it was safe for ME to care for him. I did not want to injure him and I did not want to get hurt myself. (if that happened who would care for the 2 of us!) That was the deciding factor. Luckily I was able to keep him at home but it was through the help of the VA that allowed me to get caregivers so I could keep my sanity. (although the jury is still out on that) And I was able to care for him with the help of Hospice. Through Hospice I got all the equipment that I needed to safely care for him. And also important, I was able to care for him because he was compliant, non violent and he retained the mellow personality that he always had.
Do what you can for as long as you can. As I have said before coming to the decision to place someone in Memory Care or a Skilled Nursing facility is NOT a failure on your part but acknowledging the fact that your loved one requires more care than you can safely do yourself. You are but 1 person a SNF or MC has a staff of people that care for people that need more care.
Finding good, reliable care can be a challenge. For my dad, I’m grateful to have struck gold on the third caregiver I interviewed. She proved to be an amazing person and was wonderful to my dad, she made a friend of a man who adamantly wanted no one in his home. I recognize how blessed we were to find such a great person
Completely different approach if the elder and the in-home care is happening in your own home, particularly with no separate ‘granny flat’. It can be like having a servant in your own rooms permanently, plus living in a railway terminus where people are coming and going all the time. The risk of theft is high, so you need to reorganise your own stuff to minimise theft risks. Your own privacy goes down the gurgler! And the discomfort is costing a fortune....
Because we need to keep costs down, I am organizing all of the in home care and piecing together care between myself, family and friends, and what my parents are willing to pay. It is almost like a full time job. Organizing their care , how to finance it, and getting them to their appointments has taken over my life, in addition to my own real job. If money is not an object, that is probably different. But the upside is allowing my parents to be in the home they have been in for 50 years, which means so much to them. I remind myself this is only a season, and I want to feel I did the best thing for them.
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.
Hard to get enough help to cover all of patient's needs. Caregivers get sick, need vacation, etc. and then you might be left in a last minute situation of needing a caregiver more quickly than is possible.
For some in-home care is pretty easy. For others not so much.
I thought I had it easy. Although friends of mine thought otherwise.
There are personal considerations to think about.
What will you NOT do? and What CAN you do?
Is your house set up for caregiving? Wide halls?, large bathroom that 2 or more people can be in and accomplish what needs to be done,
stairs? (dangerous or impossible for someone that has to use a walker or wheelchair)
carpeting? (can be difficult with walker or wheelchair)
Can you or the person you are caring for afford help?
Will this be your full time job? Are you quitting a job in order to do this? (probably not a great idea)
Will you get paid for caregiving? You should,.
I made the decision when my Husband was diagnosed with dementia that I would keep him home as long as it was safe to do so.
By SAFETY I am mean I would keep him home as long as it was safe for HIM for me to care for him and as long as it was safe for ME to care for him. I did not want to injure him and I did not want to get hurt myself. (if that happened who would care for the 2 of us!)
That was the deciding factor. Luckily I was able to keep him at home but it was through the help of the VA that allowed me to get caregivers so I could keep my sanity. (although the jury is still out on that)
And I was able to care for him with the help of Hospice. Through Hospice I got all the equipment that I needed to safely care for him.
And also important, I was able to care for him because he was compliant, non violent and he retained the mellow personality that he always had.
Do what you can for as long as you can.
As I have said before coming to the decision to place someone in Memory Care or a Skilled Nursing facility is NOT a failure on your part but acknowledging the fact that your loved one requires more care than you can safely do yourself. You are but 1 person a SNF or MC has a staff of people that care for people that need more care.
i’m in the same (lucky) boat as you!!
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we had bad caregivers (thieves, uncaring, etc).
and then i found great caregivers!!
lucky.
(not totally by chance; i searched a lot; asked people who knew people).
our caregivers are kind, fantastic, sweet — and in a very nice mood all the time. amazing.
:)
2. Turnover
3. Abilities of caregivers vary wildly
4. Having to be the personnel manager even if you use an agency
5. Loss of privacy