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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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I had a friend who was terminally ill with cancer. As she became very weak and ill, she called and arranged for hospice to come about once a week. The hospice ladies were wonderful. They visited with her, myself and her sister, who were her caregivers. They taught us how to administer shots for pain, should she need them. They talked alone with her about dying and tended to her spiritual and emotional needs in ways that her sister and I could not, for dying and death were their business. They were warm, compassionate, caring and sometimes funny. They were helpful and supportive to the sister and me. As my friend grew sicker and weaker, they visited more often, even daily. They were on call 24/7, and when my friend had a crisis they came immediately and got us through it. When she died, they were there promptly as well, and walked us through the process of dealing with the necessary steps of whom to call, what to do. Their support and just having their familiar, comforting faces at that time was invaluable. They were our angels.
NO. Hospice is not euthanasia, it is about keeping people comfortable until their last breath. Assisted death is available in some places but even there it is something the patient has to arrange and consent to.
Hospice accepts folks who have a life limiting illness who agree that they are no longer going to get treatment to cure that illness. Folks enrolled in Hospice get care to treat their symptoms and their pain, and to ease their breathing.
Hospice often uses morphine as an effective pain medication. Morphine can also ease difficult breathing for someone who has congestive heart failure.
Hospice evaluates patients prior to accepting them for care. Often, by the time hospice is called in, the patient is already actively dying. Thus, it is not difficult for hospice to predict with accuracy how long before someone is going to die, with or without any medications that make the experience less painful or terrifying.
My mom had congestive heart failure. Dying from that feels like drowning. I did not want that for her. We called in hospice to give her morphine to help ease her breathing and to shield her from the gasping for breath that she would have otherwise endured.
I am sorry for your loss. I hope these explanations 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.
As my friend grew sicker and weaker, they visited more often, even daily. They were on call 24/7, and when my friend had a crisis they came immediately and got us through it. When she died, they were there promptly as well, and walked us through the process of dealing with the necessary steps of whom to call, what to do. Their support and just having their familiar, comforting faces at that time was invaluable. They were our angels.
Hospice cares for people who are terminally ill and dying.
Hospice provides palliative care to people who are terminally ill and dying.
Hospice provides emotional care to people who are terminally ill and dying.
Hospice provides spiritual care to people who are terminally ill and dying.
Hospice accepts folks who have a life limiting illness who agree that they are no longer going to get treatment to cure that illness. Folks enrolled in Hospice get care to treat their symptoms and their pain, and to ease their breathing.
Hospice often uses morphine as an effective pain medication. Morphine can also ease difficult breathing for someone who has congestive heart failure.
Hospice evaluates patients prior to accepting them for care. Often, by the time hospice is called in, the patient is already actively dying. Thus, it is not difficult for hospice to predict with accuracy how long before someone is going to die, with or without any medications that make the experience less painful or terrifying.
My mom had congestive heart failure. Dying from that feels like drowning. I did not want that for her. We called in hospice to give her morphine to help ease her breathing and to shield her from the gasping for breath that she would have otherwise endured.
I am sorry for your loss. I hope these explanations help.