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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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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.
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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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My mother is convinced we can find someone to live rent free so she can have someone there. She cannot live alone it looks like anymore. Sun City Arizona area.
These expectations aren’t realistic. If she’s in Sun City, Arizona, there will be fine eldercare facilities nearby. They’re like the graduate school for formerly active seniors who now need help. That’s where she needs to go.
The local council for the blind, which may go under another name, can help with suggestions for sight issues. I hope you find the perfect place for her.
No pay? 24/7 must be present? No $ for a car? How will groceries be paid? This means mom is feeding 2 people. No pay at all? No overtime after 40 hours of work? Workmans comp for accident insurance? This is slavery.
For live in care, you need minimum or 5 full time people. Costs for a living wage for 5 people is over 200k. Can mom be reasoned with for the answers? It sounds like she is no longer safe and is dreaming about home care scenarios.
You can click on the "Find Care" at the top of this page, or you can fill out the "Free, No Obligation Care Finder" to the right of this page to help you find the care your mother needs.
- Once they move in, your home is their legal residence. What happens if you don't like them or how they provide care, or have bad habits, or have people over that you don't like?
- You still have to pay them some cash or they won't be able to live: how will they buy groceries, or pay for their car or gas, etc?
- Many people who hire live-ins have an unspoken expectation of 24/7 on-call care. This is totally unrealistic, immoral and leads to them burning out. Also, what happens if they get sick or want to go on vacation? Work a normal 40-hr week, etc?
- If your Mom is 91, another unspoken expectation is that the live-in does everything for your Mom: cooking, housecleaning, shopping, laundry, yardwork, beside caring for her personally.
- Letting a total stranger live in such closeness can lead to financial and other types of abuse.
- People who decide to care as live-in don't necessarily have experience or know anything about the elderly -- or dementia. Living daily with someone with dementia is hard, and burns even family members out.
- If and when problems arise, you will still need to be managing things for her.
Please do not entertain unreasonabe ideas from your Mom that will have you wasting time chasing after non-solutions. If you are her PoA then read the document and see what it requires to activate the authority. Then decide to either hire agency aids, or transition her to a facility near you. You can achieve this using therapeutic fibs, if necessary. Your Mom hasn't been operating in the "mainstream" world for a while and will keep thinking she's in the 1950s when coming up with ideas for solutions. Caregiving has to happen on the caregiver's terms. She doesn't have to agree with it or like it.
Care.com or do a browser search for "caregiving agencies near _______".
I wish you success in finding the right care for your Mom.
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:
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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.
The local council for the blind, which may go under another name, can help with suggestions for sight issues. I hope you find the perfect place for her.
If someone is willing to become, essentially, a slave for a roof over their head, well, I can only imagine why.
For live in care, you need minimum or 5 full time people. Costs for a living wage for 5 people is over 200k. Can mom be reasoned with for the answers? It sounds like she is no longer safe and is dreaming about home care scenarios.
- Once they move in, your home is their legal residence. What happens if you don't like them or how they provide care, or have bad habits, or have people over that you don't like?
- You still have to pay them some cash or they won't be able to live: how will they buy groceries, or pay for their car or gas, etc?
- Many people who hire live-ins have an unspoken expectation of 24/7 on-call care. This is totally unrealistic, immoral and leads to them burning out. Also, what happens if they get sick or want to go on vacation? Work a normal 40-hr week, etc?
- If your Mom is 91, another unspoken expectation is that the live-in does everything for your Mom: cooking, housecleaning, shopping, laundry, yardwork, beside caring for her personally.
- Letting a total stranger live in such closeness can lead to financial and other types of abuse.
- People who decide to care as live-in don't necessarily have experience or know anything about the elderly -- or dementia. Living daily with someone with dementia is hard, and burns even family members out.
- If and when problems arise, you will still need to be managing things for her.
Please do not entertain unreasonabe ideas from your Mom that will have you wasting time chasing after non-solutions. If you are her PoA then read the document and see what it requires to activate the authority. Then decide to either hire agency aids, or transition her to a facility near you. You can achieve this using therapeutic fibs, if necessary. Your Mom hasn't been operating in the "mainstream" world for a while and will keep thinking she's in the 1950s when coming up with ideas for solutions. Caregiving has to happen on the caregiver's terms. She doesn't have to agree with it or like it.
Care.com or do a browser search for "caregiving agencies near _______".
I wish you success in finding the right care for your Mom.