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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.
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Once you start needing free services in order to stay in your home, this is a clear sign that you cannot afford to live there any longer. You and many other Boomer elders are moving into this category. It is unrealistic to think that others can provide you with free services *on an ongoing basis*.
You should be meeting with a financial planner or estate planner or elder law attorney to plan out your future care and get all your legal ducks in a row so that you don't become a ward of a court-assigned 3rd party guardian -- which IS what will happen in your future if you don't deal with reality now.
You've signed up to a forum of caregivers to elderly loved ones from around the world here at Agingcare. We answer questions and share our experiences with one another. We don't help people find free services.
If you are unable financially or physically to maintain your home you should sell it and move to an apartment. We are now in the position of having to accept we cannot do it for much longer. All of our neighbors are in their mid 70's and 80's. We have been neighbors over 45 years and it is kind of sad, but we are realistic.They hire people to mow the grass and do yard work. Several are also selling their houses. Why do so many people feel they are entitled to free services?
I think it's the 'Boomer' generation. They were coming up in the 60s and 70s and were the 'ME' generation. I had care clients who were adults during the Great Depression, the Greatest Generation, and the Silent Generation. They were not like this. I was in service as a caregiver to many from these generations over the years. They never expected anything from anyone. I often had to remind care clients that I worked for them and it was my job to help them. Gen Z now are exactly the same as the 'Boomers'. They expect everything from everyone. They will not so much as walk across the street for someone unless they're being paid to. I'm Gen X and that behavior has never been tolerated from us. At home most people my age had chores that we did and were not paid for. We were the 'latch key' kids who if you had working parents, let yourselves into an empty house after school and usually had to start or make dinner and look after younger siblings. Gen X'ers usually knew how to pretty much run a home, cook, and fend for themselves from the time we're 11 or 12 years old. Then again, we had 'Boomer' parents.
There's a hilarious and true saying among Gen X that we were raised garden hose water and neglect.
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.
Once you start needing free services in order to stay in your home, this is a clear sign that you cannot afford to live there any longer. You and many other Boomer elders are moving into this category. It is unrealistic to think that others can provide you with free services *on an ongoing basis*.
You should be meeting with a financial planner or estate planner or elder law attorney to plan out your future care and get all your legal ducks in a row so that you don't become a ward of a court-assigned 3rd party guardian -- which IS what will happen in your future if you don't deal with reality now.
Good luck to you.
I think it's the 'Boomer' generation. They were coming up in the 60s and 70s and were the 'ME' generation. I had care clients who were adults during the Great Depression, the Greatest Generation, and the Silent Generation. They were not like this. I was in service as a caregiver to many from these generations over the years. They never expected anything from anyone. I often had to remind care clients that I worked for them and it was my job to help them. Gen Z now are exactly the same as the 'Boomers'. They expect everything from everyone. They will not so much as walk across the street for someone unless they're being paid to. I'm Gen X and that behavior has never been tolerated from us. At home most people my age had chores that we did and were not paid for. We were the 'latch key' kids who if you had working parents, let yourselves into an empty house after school and usually had to start or make dinner and look after younger siblings. Gen X'ers usually knew how to pretty much run a home, cook, and fend for themselves from the time we're 11 or 12 years old. Then again, we had 'Boomer' parents.
There's a hilarious and true saying among Gen X that we were raised garden hose water and neglect.