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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.
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My mom was hospitalized and while in there they used it. While patient is in bed, if they have a bowel movement it gets in the external catheter! So, I’m not sure it is beneficial to a person in bed? She got a UTI!
IMO it has been a Godsend! I ordered The system for my mom after she broke her hip a few years ago, and it has alleviated so many problems! She used to get up several times a night to urinate, and never got a good night’s sleep. Now, thanks to Purewick, she’s able to sleep through the night. (She also wears an adult diaper, with a disposable pee pad underneath her - just in case.) The only downsides are 1) the cost of the wicks; about $200 for a box of 30, 2) the plastic bucket is fragile and cracks easily when you take the lid off, 3) the smell when you take the lid off. After cleaning g and disinfecting the pieces, we add a urine cleaning product and water to the bucket when setting it up for the night. It helps. We also have 2-3 bucket units we keep in rotation.
The only downside (for us) is my mom is now used to the Purewick system at night. Recently, she had to go to a post-accute rehab after being briefly hospitalized. She was completely bedridden. The rehab didn’t have the Purewick system, nor did they help her use a bedpan. Nor did they change her very often. So she was lying in her own urine for hours. I pulled her out of there after three days and filed a complaint about them.
Yes, Medicare stopped paying for it someone posted a while back. Me, do you have to be on your back all night. I also tend to change sides. Basically a stomach sleeper.
Interesting your observations on this. I don't know how good this is for someone with chronic incontinence, or for someone with both urine and fecal incontinence. I DO know it was used recently for a friend who had hip surgery. She had problems with her feet and required braces and it was so difficult for her to get up to the bathroom with her urinary urgency that there were problems; however she didn't have fecal incontinence and she needed this device only until back on her feet a bit better; she swore by it. Sounds like it might be good in some instances and not in others. Thanks for your observations.
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.
I ordered The system for my mom after she broke her hip a few years ago, and it has alleviated so many problems! She used to get up several times a night to urinate, and never got a good night’s sleep. Now, thanks to Purewick, she’s able to sleep through the night. (She also wears an adult diaper, with a disposable pee pad underneath her - just in case.)
The only downsides are 1) the cost of the wicks; about $200 for a box of 30, 2) the plastic bucket is fragile and cracks easily when you take the lid off, 3) the smell when you take the lid off. After cleaning g and disinfecting the pieces, we add a urine cleaning product and water to the bucket when setting it up for the night. It helps. We also have 2-3 bucket units we keep in rotation.
The only downside (for us) is my mom is now used to the Purewick system at night. Recently, she had to go to a post-accute rehab after being briefly hospitalized. She was completely bedridden. The rehab didn’t have the Purewick system, nor did they help her use a bedpan. Nor did they change her very often. So she was lying in her own urine for hours. I pulled her out of there after three days and filed a complaint about them.