Are you sure you want to exit? Your progress will be lost.
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?
Acknowledgment of Disclosures and Authorization
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.
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Mostly Independent
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.
Remember, this assessment is not a substitute for professional advice.
Share a few details and we will match you to trusted home care in your area:
You'll need to provide more background on how you became "trapped." Were you placed there by a government agency? If not, how did you come to be in this facility, especially if you feel you don't need this type of placement?
And who's paying for this placement?
You'll get much more advice if we can understand how this situation arose and why you're in a placement now.
Tell us more, Radfrog, about about how you were moved from your home to LTC. Do understand that these facilities are not prisons. If you are mentally and physically capable of caring for yourself you simply get a cab and go home after notifying your doctor of your plan. Do you have a guardian, conservator, POA who felt you were needing LTC? Appreciate more information. Wishing you the best.
You can call your State Ombudsman to help. Your County Adult Protection can help. You have rights.
It would be nice to know what put you in LTC. Were you or are you doing Rehab there?
Do you have a place to go to if discharged? Has it been determined needing 24/7 care?
What happens with LTC is if they feel the resident needs 24/7 care and no one willing to do the care, by law they cannot release the person. Its called an "unsafe discharge".
If you are competent enough to convince us lay-person caregivers you can take care of yourself, then go ahead and try.
If you need an advocate, whose job it is to assess whether you can go home, and differentiate between the common cry of elders needing care: "I can take care of myself" and your rights provided (also by law), then you will want to contact the "Patient's Rights Advocate", whose number is posted at the facility (required by law). Not sure, but this could be the same person known as the NH Ombudsman, also posted as required by law.
Any chance you were admitted against your will or had a temporary illness or decline?
In my lifetime, it has made me so very happy to be helpful to someone needing to bust out of a facility.
I always told my loved one to call me if he ever needed to bust out from a place he did not want to be, against his will. He always thought that he did not have a choice to be moved from family, passing him around, using his money, until he decided to move himself to a senior living apartment-much like an assisted living luxury home he could afford. He was able to do this on his own. I provided the hand written document expressing his wishes that he carried with him from place to place, documenting that he was taken from his home against his will by step-son(s). He signed it, and was never declared incompetent. He just needed a little help.
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.
And who's paying for this placement?
You'll get much more advice if we can understand how this situation arose and why you're in a placement now.
It would be nice to know what put you in LTC. Were you or are you doing Rehab there?
Do you have a place to go to if discharged?
Has it been determined needing 24/7 care?
What happens with LTC is if they feel the resident needs 24/7 care and no one willing to do the care, by law they cannot release the person. Its called an "unsafe discharge".
If you need an advocate, whose job it is to assess whether you can go home, and differentiate between the common cry of elders needing care:
"I can take care of myself" and your rights provided (also by law),
then you will want to contact the "Patient's Rights Advocate", whose number is posted at the facility (required by law). Not sure, but this could be the same person known as the NH Ombudsman, also posted as required by law.
Any chance you were admitted against your will or had a temporary illness or decline?
In my lifetime, it has made me so very happy to be helpful to someone needing to bust out of a facility.
I always told my loved one to call me if he ever needed to bust out from a place he did not want to be, against his will. He always thought that he did not have a choice to be moved from family, passing him around, using his money, until he decided to move himself to a senior living apartment-much like an assisted living luxury home he could afford. He was able to do this on his own. I provided the hand written document expressing his wishes that he carried with him from place to place, documenting that he was taken from his home against his will by step-son(s). He signed it, and was never declared incompetent. He just needed a little help.