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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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Are you the health care recipient, or a family member?
If this health aide looks after you, and talks about you in breach of confidentiality rules, then that's instant dismissal. Do you have a replacement lined up? Does the aide work directly for you, or for an agency?
Your profile says ur caring for ur father. Is the aide for him? Is the aide talking to someone else about you or your father. Do you have the responsibility to pay this aide? Out of Dads money or yours.
Since ur profile says Dad has ALZ/Dementia, I will assume you hired the the aide. Really doesn't matter how she is getting paid, ur the employer. No healthcare provider should talk about any of her clients. It's unprofessional. If your the one she answers to, she should be doing what u request within her job description.
I worked as a secretary for a Visiting Nurse Assoc. My nurses were told that they needed to remember that they were going into peoples homes. As such, they just go in and do the job they had orders for. You don't tell them what to do.
Thank you all. I realized I missed some key information (posted after 2am). I am POA & pay all aides. The aide does a decent job with father but is talking about the other aide and me and it can cause a disruption with the work to be done. There seems to be some jealousy and deception. In an effort to not be spiteful, I did not want to let the aide go unless it was under probable cause, but I feel like if the individual is unhappy or continues to be disrespectful and I'm paying, I would rather have a more pleasant aide so that it will not disturb the job the individual was paid to do. I do plan to speak with the individual one-on-one to attempt to settle all discrepancies. I just want to know if anyone has had any similar situations in eliminating pettiness.
Also, yes I have replacements on call, the individual is talking about me & other aide to another family member (who is a representative for me when I am not in town). Private hire, no agency.
You have already stated that she does a decent job when working with him. That is "damning with faint praise," a little bit... Is she a good, capable, conscientious aide?
I assume she doesn't complain disrespectfully about you or her co-worker to your face. You've been hearing reports through other people and it's annoyed you. To my mind, that is a poor reason to lose a reliable aide - it's gossip, and you might be being very unfair.
Write a list of the grievances or dissatisfactions that you have been told she has mentioned. Ask her about them, get to the bottom of them; and then when you've addressed her issues say something like "I do need to say this to you. If there's anything that bothers you at work, please discuss it me and please never discuss what goes on in our home with outsiders - even outsiders who are family members. It's a question of confidentiality and I need to know you appreciate that."
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.
Are you the health care recipient, or a family member?
If this health aide looks after you, and talks about you in breach of confidentiality rules, then that's instant dismissal. Do you have a replacement lined up? Does the aide work directly for you, or for an agency?
Your profile says ur caring for ur father. Is the aide for him? Is the aide talking to someone else about you or your father. Do you have the responsibility to pay this aide? Out of Dads money or yours.
Since ur profile says Dad has ALZ/Dementia, I will assume you hired the the aide. Really doesn't matter how she is getting paid, ur the employer. No healthcare provider should talk about any of her clients. It's unprofessional. If your the one she answers to, she should be doing what u request within her job description.
I worked as a secretary for a Visiting Nurse Assoc. My nurses were told that they needed to remember that they were going into peoples homes. As such, they just go in and do the job they had orders for. You don't tell them what to do.
U may want to explain that ur family member is just your representative but ur her employer. If she has any complaints, she is to come to you.
Does your father like this aide?
You have already stated that she does a decent job when working with him. That is "damning with faint praise," a little bit... Is she a good, capable, conscientious aide?
I assume she doesn't complain disrespectfully about you or her co-worker to your face. You've been hearing reports through other people and it's annoyed you. To my mind, that is a poor reason to lose a reliable aide - it's gossip, and you might be being very unfair.
Write a list of the grievances or dissatisfactions that you have been told she has mentioned. Ask her about them, get to the bottom of them; and then when you've addressed her issues say something like "I do need to say this to you. If there's anything that bothers you at work, please discuss it me and please never discuss what goes on in our home with outsiders - even outsiders who are family members. It's a question of confidentiality and I need to know you appreciate that."
Anyway, good luck and let us know how it goes!