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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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What type of resources are needed? Caregiving? Financial? First thing, contact your parent's County/city Council on Aging to see what local programs are available.
Well, this is likely going to take a family leave application if you are still working so that you can visit, assess the entire situation financially and help to make some decisions. I wish you the best but this is a full time job for a while if you are the only one dealing with it. I think it is unlikely that in home care will work for these two and you are perhaps looking now at placement.
When you have a specific question for us, do return and ask it. It sounds as though you are looking at placement in Assisted living at the least, or at MC and Hospice. This may include applications to Medicaid once you understand the family financial assets situation. You may want to consider hiring on a Fiduciary to help that is based in the town where your parents are living. Recommendations often come from Elder Law Attorneys who work with them in the court system when elders have no family.
We, as a Forum of strangers can have utterly no idea of the situation you face, which will be unique and dependent on what is currently happening and on the cooperation or lack of it from your parents who are now in need of care. We cannot know what you already know and what you do not know. We certainly wish you the best of luck going forward. Can only imagine how helpless you must feel in this. Do know that's where we ALL started out. When you live away from family it all starts with the dread "phone call" and it is once anxious year awaiting. I want to welcome you to the Forum and hope you can get some comfort and information you need here. If you are not already the designated POA the first step is deciding if you are capable of serving as the POA. Secondly is checking any pre-existing will that may designate you as POA within a springing POA section of that will. I suggest contacting an elder law attorney where your parents live when you visit as a way to get grounded and have a starting list of options.
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.
What type of resources are needed? Caregiving? Financial? First thing, contact your parent's County/city Council on Aging to see what local programs are available.
When you have a specific question for us, do return and ask it. It sounds as though you are looking at placement in Assisted living at the least, or at MC and Hospice. This may include applications to Medicaid once you understand the family financial assets situation. You may want to consider hiring on a Fiduciary to help that is based in the town where your parents are living. Recommendations often come from Elder Law Attorneys who work with them in the court system when elders have no family.
We, as a Forum of strangers can have utterly no idea of the situation you face, which will be unique and dependent on what is currently happening and on the cooperation or lack of it from your parents who are now in need of care. We cannot know what you already know and what you do not know.
We certainly wish you the best of luck going forward. Can only imagine how helpless you must feel in this. Do know that's where we ALL started out. When you live away from family it all starts with the dread "phone call" and it is once anxious year awaiting. I want to welcome you to the Forum and hope you can get some comfort and information you need here. If you are not already the designated POA the first step is deciding if you are capable of serving as the POA. Secondly is checking any pre-existing will that may designate you as POA within a springing POA section of that will. I suggest contacting an elder law attorney where your parents live when you visit as a way to get grounded and have a starting list of options.