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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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Well, many people would argue that caregiving is a privilege. I suppose that it all depends on one’s perspective on the topic.
I read your profile and it seems that you are burning out. Can you hire outside help with your parent’s funds? I really don’t know what else to suggest, unless you are able to place your parent in a facility.
I read your profile, and I certainly can relate to what you're going through. I hope and pray that you're taking time away for yourself to do some things that you enjoy, as that is one of the most important things you can do to maintain some kind of sanity and self worth. Being a caregiver is the hardest job I've ever done. There were many days when I didn't think I was going to make it, but for the grace of God I did. My husband(who I cared for)has been dead 8 1/2 months now, and weird as this may sound, I would give anything to care for him just one more day. I am grateful that I was able to care for him, hard as it was, until the very end. And though you may not feel it right now, Jesus is in fact at the wheel and always has been. May God bless you and keep you.
Well, you are one of us now. Look forward to your participation. As a caregiver yourself you will have learned much about caregiving. What works, what doesn't, what our human limitations are. Some of us have already lost the elder whose care we participated in, but we stick around to field questions from others. Some questions are simple and may involve no emotional problems, just a financial question. Some are about health. Some are about burnout. We all have different perspectives, different backgrounds, different perspectives. Where we might be of zero help of one person, we may be of help to another. So, welcome to the Forum and hope to see you in future. I read your profile and saw the word "Guilt". It is my "see red" word. Like waving a flag in front of the bull. Words have a great deal of power. We are human beings, not Gods or Saints. We have limitations. And when we bump up into those limitations we feel GRIEF, not guilt (which belongs to felons who do evil for the sheer joy of it). We grieve the losses we see our elders go through. We grieve that there is no "fix it". We grieve our limitations. I am not a believer. Not by choice, but because in all my 79 years, through many fox holes, I simply never believed. But those who are believers sometimes use the phrase "Let go and let God", meaning there are some things we cannot fix. We can pray to God to fix them for us. Or we can do the best we can. But there's just no easy fix. When you next use the word guilt I ask only that you truly examine it. What are you REALLY feel when you look at all of it? Isn't it helplessness, pain, grief? I wish you so much luck. We all muddle through this thing we have no control over the best we can, with out own beliefs (of lack of) , with our own talents (or lack of them), doing the best we can. Welcome, again.
So grateful for the kind, supportive, well written and directly loving thoughts! I am honored with the personal sharing in everyone’s responses! I certainly downloaded a lot, that when I read it again, it seems victim-like and yet a reality check on what I carry within. Our emotions that ebb and flow can seem and really are so crazy at times. Trust, self care from self worth are the diving forces that are a daily devotion and practice...and a gift from God that I still wrestle with...yet would advise anyone else to embrace, surrender, release the traumas and focus on what thoughts are creating our suffering. i am grateful to the people who truly care with courage and compassion. What we all deserve!!...and can choose to give to ourselves just as well. All my heart to all...
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 read your profile and it seems that you are burning out. Can you hire outside help with your parent’s funds? I really don’t know what else to suggest, unless you are able to place your parent in a facility.
Best wishes to you.
Being a caregiver is the hardest job I've ever done. There were many days when I didn't think I was going to make it, but for the grace of God I did.
My husband(who I cared for)has been dead 8 1/2 months now, and weird as this may sound, I would give anything to care for him just one more day. I am grateful that I was able to care for him, hard as it was, until the very end.
And though you may not feel it right now, Jesus is in fact at the wheel and always has been. May God bless you and keep you.
I read your profile and saw the word "Guilt". It is my "see red" word. Like waving a flag in front of the bull. Words have a great deal of power. We are human beings, not Gods or Saints. We have limitations. And when we bump up into those limitations we feel GRIEF, not guilt (which belongs to felons who do evil for the sheer joy of it). We grieve the losses we see our elders go through. We grieve that there is no "fix it". We grieve our limitations.
I am not a believer. Not by choice, but because in all my 79 years, through many fox holes, I simply never believed. But those who are believers sometimes use the phrase "Let go and let God", meaning there are some things we cannot fix. We can pray to God to fix them for us. Or we can do the best we can. But there's just no easy fix. When you next use the word guilt I ask only that you truly examine it. What are you REALLY feel when you look at all of it? Isn't it helplessness, pain, grief?
I wish you so much luck. We all muddle through this thing we have no control over the best we can, with out own beliefs (of lack of) , with our own talents (or lack of them), doing the best we can. Welcome, again.
honored with the personal sharing in everyone’s responses! I certainly downloaded a lot, that when I read it again, it seems victim-like and yet a reality check on what I carry within. Our emotions that ebb and flow can seem and really are
so crazy at times.
Trust, self care from self worth are the diving forces that are a daily devotion and practice...and a gift from God that I still wrestle with...yet would advise anyone else to embrace, surrender, release the traumas and focus on what thoughts are creating our suffering.
i am grateful to the people who truly care with courage and compassion.
What we all deserve!!...and can choose to give to ourselves just as well.
All my heart to all...