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Who are you caring for?
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.
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If you're going through an agency I'm not sure I understand why you have to interview caregivers. Won't the agency send caregivers to you? If the caregivers work for an agency they will have already had background checks and been interviewed prior to being hired. Hopefully the agency will send you caregivers who work well with your routine and whom you like.
You might consider just having a general conversation as an opener as people are more candid when they're not being interviewed. Serve coffee, tea, cider to establish a relaxed atmosphere.
Perhaps tell the candidates about your parents, what they enjoy and don't enjoy, etc.. And try to get the candidates to do the same so you have an idea how they'll interact with your parents.
I'd be looking for compassion, potential interaction with both your parents and yor (it is a team, after all), how emergencies are handled and what could constitute an emergency. Although I'm sure agencies have protocols, what might be an emergency to a daughter or son might not be an emergency to a hired caregiver.
Sometime I've seen in occasional posts here on this forum are problems people have had with caregivers....whether it's lack of responsibility, becoming too friendly with the family to the exclusion of the caregivers...extreme, perhaps, but it could be an issue.
Something occurred once with a therapist through a home care agency which surprised me. The woman really was fond of my father, and for that I was appreciative. But she began giving homeopathic medical advice which unsettled me. I support this alternative personally, but not some of her advice made me uncomfortable as I couldn't verify its legitimacy when I researched it.
In another situation, it wasn't a hired caregiver, but there was an incident in which I should have been notified of an incident but I wasn't until it was discovered during a trip to the ER. By that time, the complications were more serious. My parent should also have notified me but felt it wasn't serious.
A candidate can have a great resume but it takes something special to be able to come in someone else's house and take care of their parents.
As from my experience, you talked openly to care giver and study him/her. Is she/he is a night person or day person? If your parents used to wake up often at night to go toilet/bath room, will he/she be ok to get up often and accompany? Is he/she patient enough to serve your parents when elderly person keep request repeatly? Will he/she really enjoy much time with elderly? I really encounter one care giver who is not interesting elderly and most of the time she watching TV by sitting beside my parents.
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.
Perhaps tell the candidates about your parents, what they enjoy and don't enjoy, etc.. And try to get the candidates to do the same so you have an idea how they'll interact with your parents.
I'd be looking for compassion, potential interaction with both your parents and yor (it is a team, after all), how emergencies are handled and what could constitute an emergency. Although I'm sure agencies have protocols, what might be an emergency to a daughter or son might not be an emergency to a hired caregiver.
Sometime I've seen in occasional posts here on this forum are problems people have had with caregivers....whether it's lack of responsibility, becoming too friendly with the family to the exclusion of the caregivers...extreme, perhaps, but it could be an issue.
Something occurred once with a therapist through a home care agency which surprised me. The woman really was fond of my father, and for that I was appreciative. But she began giving homeopathic medical advice which unsettled me. I support this alternative personally, but not some of her advice made me uncomfortable as I couldn't verify its legitimacy when I researched it.
In another situation, it wasn't a hired caregiver, but there was an incident in which I should have been notified of an incident but I wasn't until it was discovered during a trip to the ER. By that time, the complications were more serious. My parent should also have notified me but felt it wasn't serious.
A candidate can have a great resume but it takes something special to be able to come in someone else's house and take care of their parents.