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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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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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Look to the right on your screen. It says: Find Care & Housing. Select: Home Care Insert you postal code in the search box that says: Your postal code or city. You don't have to put in your contact information so close the pop up. Now look over a trifle to the left of your screen. A list of home care organizations will appear in front of you. View their services provided. Visit their website to find pricing. Send them an email and see how responsive they are.
These were the instructions I was given a year ago. I blinked my eyes a few times, processed the information and then was able to find help with bathing. LMK if you need more help.
Contact your county agency on aging. They may be able to get you a bathing aide for three times a week at a sliding scale fee. My aunt in WV had one. It cost her $30.00 a month for 3 times a week. She eventually needed help with some other things and was able to get aide for two hours per day M-F. The price for two hours a day, five days a week was $50.00 a month.
You can put out an appeal on Nextdoor.com for someone local who is a certified aid and is interested in making a few cash bucks per/bath (or shower). My Aunt has mod/adv dementia and she is fortunate to have a neighbor 2 houses down who is a PT aid as her regular job but then comes to bathe my aunt 2x per week for $30 cash. It only takes her about 30 minutes each time. She knows how to get her to cooperate and only lives 2 houses away from her. She's been doing it for several years now.
If this is the first time you have had to have someone come in and help out I would strongly suggest going with an agency. Getting someone that does not want to bathe or shower can be difficult. But people that have done it for a while sometimes can manage what might be difficult for others. So getting someone that has done this for a while will help. Call an agency or 2 and ask what the minimum number of hours for a shower aid would be. It is not a "simple" as they shower someone and leave. It is getting the person into the shower, the shower then getting them out, dressed and groomed. Once you are used to the process and the person getting bathed is used to the process it will become easier. The last thing to remember is at some point getting someone into a shower or bath might not be the safest thing and regular showers will be replaced with Bed Baths.
I just want to make you aware that with Office of Aging if they provide an aide, the person needing the aide may need to be low income. Otherwise, they may have a list of providers you can hire. I worked at a Visiting Nurse Assoc and we had Aides, CNAs and LPNs ask to be put on a list we kept to give to people calling in for help.
I found a woman who bathed my Mom. She was not a CNA but had worked as a private aide for people. At the time she had a job as an aide on a school bus. When the bus dropped her off after the first run, she came to my house. She was there maybe an hour 3x a week. I paid her by check $30 a week. Sometimes she couldn't make one of the days, I still gave her the $30. I now wish I had paid her $15 an hour. I also knew this woman, she went to school with my daughter.
Aides are not all CNAs. It can be someone who likes caring for others and is good at it. I would suggest asking at Churches. My Community College has a Nursing program. Maybe a student would love to make some xtra money. Tech schools have CNA training maybe find someone there. Going thru an agency you will pay a lot more than if you can get someone privately.
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.
It says: Find Care & Housing.
Select: Home Care
Insert you postal code in the search box that says: Your postal code or city.
You don't have to put in your contact information so close the pop up.
Now look over a trifle to the left of your screen.
A list of home care organizations will appear in front of you.
View their services provided.
Visit their website to find pricing.
Send them an email and see how responsive they are.
These were the instructions I was given a year ago.
I blinked my eyes a few times, processed the information and then was able to find help with bathing.
LMK if you need more help.
Getting someone that does not want to bathe or shower can be difficult. But people that have done it for a while sometimes can manage what might be difficult for others. So getting someone that has done this for a while will help.
Call an agency or 2 and ask what the minimum number of hours for a shower aid would be. It is not a "simple" as they shower someone and leave. It is getting the person into the shower, the shower then getting them out, dressed and groomed.
Once you are used to the process and the person getting bathed is used to the process it will become easier.
The last thing to remember is at some point getting someone into a shower or bath might not be the safest thing and regular showers will be replaced with Bed Baths.
I found a woman who bathed my Mom. She was not a CNA but had worked as a private aide for people. At the time she had a job as an aide on a school bus. When the bus dropped her off after the first run, she came to my house. She was there maybe an hour 3x a week. I paid her by check $30 a week. Sometimes she couldn't make one of the days, I still gave her the $30. I now wish I had paid her $15 an hour. I also knew this woman, she went to school with my daughter.
Aides are not all CNAs. It can be someone who likes caring for others and is good at it. I would suggest asking at Churches. My Community College has a Nursing program. Maybe a student would love to make some xtra money. Tech schools have CNA training maybe find someone there. Going thru an agency you will pay a lot more than if you can get someone privately.