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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?
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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.
Remember, this assessment is not a substitute for professional advice.
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How about if you determine how much to pay the caregiver like this?
Consider the age-old saying, 'You get what you pay for'. Then ask yourself how valuable you think your care of that of your precious "loved one" is worth. This is how you should determine payment of services.
Then take into consideration the type of care you or your loved one needs. If it's just some basic companionship, a little light housekeeping, and maybe preparing a small meal (which is usually what most people looking for homecare say is needed), then the pay really doesn't need to be much over your state's minimum wage. If you're hiring a caregiver to come into a filthy, hoarded house, and take care of an incontinent, ornery, nasty, verbally abusive demented elder that they can't take their eyes off of for one second because they'll take off, and you expect cleaning and housekeeping, homecare isn't right for you. If such is the case you should consider placement in a residential care facility.
I own a homecare agency and did this line of work for many years. Here's how the pricing and paying should go. If you're hiring and paying privately, the caregiver should be paid two-thirds hourly what homecare agencies in your area charge hourly. If you're hiring for live-in care, you do not pay by the hour. You pay a set rate weekly. The amount is agreed upon by all parties, put into writing, and comes with a strong written agreement on time off and client needs. Room and board are considered PART of a live-in caregiver's wages but this does not replace actual paid wages.
What you HAVE TO pay for a caregiver will be the going rate for your area. It will very much be dependent, in likelihood, upon the type of work they are doing, how often they are doing it, how reliable a schedule they have, whether an agency is involved or not, and etc.
Can you tell us a bit more about you intentions to hire a caregiver? What the needs are of the person they will be working with, and etc.
Do feel free to call caregiving agencies in your town, and check out cost of care through care.com. This will definitely give you a good idea.
Do a search for the area where you live. (Or where the care will take place) The cost of caregivers in Chicago is going to be different then the cost in Mississippi and that will be different than Ohio And hiring privately will be different than hiring an agency. And the type of care needed makes a difference.
You will get $35 for an overnight 'Sleep Duty' aide until people in your area catch on and realize that a 'Sleep Duty' aide is paid by the shift and not by the hour. I too have a homecare agency. Enjoy this money until the people paying you such a sum figure out they don't have to.
Vpaule13, payment should be whatever you and the caregiver agree is a fair amount. If you are hiring an individual who works independently, then you would have expenses such as needing a workman's comp policy on your homeowner's insurance, and an expense if you need to have a paycheck business handle the payroll taxes, etc. so the caregiver can be paid.
If you are hiring a caregiver who works for a caregiving agency, then the agency is licensed, bonded, and insured, plus pays for their employees to have workman's comp. The agency does the payroll taxes for their employees.
Hope you find a caregiver who is the prefect fit :)
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.
Consider the age-old saying, 'You get what you pay for'. Then ask yourself how valuable you think your care of that of your precious "loved one" is worth. This is how you should determine payment of services.
Then take into consideration the type of care you or your loved one needs. If it's just some basic companionship, a little light housekeeping, and maybe preparing a small meal (which is usually what most people looking for homecare say is needed), then the pay really doesn't need to be much over your state's minimum wage. If you're hiring a caregiver to come into a filthy, hoarded house, and take care of an incontinent, ornery, nasty, verbally abusive demented elder that they can't take their eyes off of for one second because they'll take off, and you expect cleaning and housekeeping, homecare isn't right for you. If such is the case you should consider placement in a residential care facility.
I own a homecare agency and did this line of work for many years. Here's how the pricing and paying should go. If you're hiring and paying privately, the caregiver should be paid two-thirds hourly what homecare agencies in your area charge hourly.
If you're hiring for live-in care, you do not pay by the hour. You pay a set rate weekly. The amount is agreed upon by all parties, put into writing, and comes with a strong written agreement on time off and client needs. Room and board are considered PART of a live-in caregiver's wages but this does not replace actual paid wages.
It will very much be dependent, in likelihood, upon the type of work they are doing, how often they are doing it, how reliable a schedule they have, whether an agency is involved or not, and etc.
Can you tell us a bit more about you intentions to hire a caregiver? What the needs are of the person they will be working with, and etc.
Do feel free to call caregiving agencies in your town, and check out cost of care through care.com. This will definitely give you a good idea.
And hiring privately will be different than hiring an agency.
And the type of care needed makes a difference.
You will get $35 for an overnight 'Sleep Duty' aide until people in your area catch on and realize that a 'Sleep Duty' aide is paid by the shift and not by the hour. I too have a homecare agency. Enjoy this money until the people paying you such a sum figure out they don't have to.
If you are hiring a caregiver who works for a caregiving agency, then the agency is licensed, bonded, and insured, plus pays for their employees to have workman's comp. The agency does the payroll taxes for their employees.
Hope you find a caregiver who is the prefect fit :)