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.
✔
I acknowledge and authorize
✔
I consent to the collection of my consumer health data.*
✔
I consent to the sharing of my consumer health data with qualified home care agencies.*
*If I am consenting on behalf of someone else, I have the proper authorization to do so. By clicking Get My Results, you agree to our Privacy Policy. You also consent to receive calls and texts, which may be autodialed, from us and our customer communities. Your consent is not a condition to using our service. Please visit our Terms of Use. for information about our privacy practices.
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:
How is a power of attorney "assigned." Is it a signature on a piece of paper from the patient for someone specific to do specific tasks? Or does it have to go through an attorney to be legal?
POA is not granted. It is given, and it is given by the Principal, the person you would be POA for. Look up POA for your state. A POA is CONFERRED UPON. That is to say that an elder decides they wish to make future plans for their care should they become incompetent in their own decisions. Let us pretend this situation is you and your mom.
Mom, being of sound mind and competent mentally asks you if you will be her POA. If you say yes, then the two of you see an attorney (sorry, but don't use the online forms and papers because no one will accept them). The attorney explains to your mother the gravity of putting you in charge of all of her money, her care, etc. The attorney helps the two of you do an advance directive for medical care your mom wants in case of catastrophic illness in which she cannot direct her own care. Does she want tube feedings? Dialysis? Ventilators? CPR? and etc. Then the POA is done. You both will sign this paper and it will be notarized.
This POA won't be used unless and until mom is declared incompetent by two examining doctors (one a neuro-psyc doc). If she has become incompetent in her own care you get registered as the signee on her bank accounts in which her bills will be paid with her name, followed by your name and the words "as POA". You will decide on placement for her safety and etc.
You will keep meticulous records of every bill paid, every penny in and out of the accounts, and a court can call you to account with your records at any time as you have become a legal fiduciary.
This is a massive subject and I will leave the rest of your research to you. If the "principal" (in this case "mom") is ALREADY too mentally compromised to confer POA on anyone, then you are moving on to the more legal and more expensive court directed conservatorship or guardianship, which is EVEN MORE COMPLICATED.
My advice? NEVER EVER EVER EVER become POA for a difficult and demanding and uncooperative person. It will likely be the worst day of you life. Good luck.
The person who wishes to have someone as a PoA is called the principal. The person they choose as their PoA is called the assignee.
The best way to do it is to make an appointment with a certified elder law attorney. In my case, my Aunt was the principal and I was her assignee. We both went to the attorney together. The attorney took my Aunt aside to privately interview her for legal cognitive capacity, and to make sure she wasn't being coerced into doing it.
The PoA authority is outlined in a document that the attorney prepares. The principal and assignee sign it in front of a notary with 2 non-family witnesses. In our case we signed 2 originals of the same PoA document so that my Aunt had 1 original copy and I had one.
The principal can specify in the PoA document what the assignee can do on their behalf, and when the authority becomes active.
You can also do this online through sites like Legalzoom.com or Rocketlawyer.com or others, but you need to make very sure the PoA done this way will never have a chance to be contested. I did it this way with my Mom (who is single) and I'm an only child. It was faster, much less expensive, and we still were able to consult with attorneys online who were licensed in our home state.
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.
Look up POA for your state.
A POA is CONFERRED UPON. That is to say that an elder decides they wish to make future plans for their care should they become incompetent in their own decisions.
Let us pretend this situation is you and your mom.
Mom, being of sound mind and competent mentally asks you if you will be her POA.
If you say yes, then the two of you see an attorney (sorry, but don't use the online forms and papers because no one will accept them).
The attorney explains to your mother the gravity of putting you in charge of all of her money, her care, etc. The attorney helps the two of you do an advance directive for medical care your mom wants in case of catastrophic illness in which she cannot direct her own care. Does she want tube feedings? Dialysis? Ventilators? CPR? and etc. Then the POA is done. You both will sign this paper and it will be notarized.
This POA won't be used unless and until mom is declared incompetent by two examining doctors (one a neuro-psyc doc). If she has become incompetent in her own care you get registered as the signee on her bank accounts in which her bills will be paid with her name, followed by your name and the words "as POA". You will decide on placement for her safety and etc.
You will keep meticulous records of every bill paid, every penny in and out of the accounts, and a court can call you to account with your records at any time as you have become a legal fiduciary.
This is a massive subject and I will leave the rest of your research to you.
If the "principal" (in this case "mom") is ALREADY too mentally compromised to confer POA on anyone, then you are moving on to the more legal and more expensive court directed conservatorship or guardianship, which is EVEN MORE COMPLICATED.
My advice? NEVER EVER EVER EVER become POA for a difficult and demanding and uncooperative person. It will likely be the worst day of you life.
Good luck.
I would go through a lawyer. They make sure the person is competent, understands what POA means and is not coerced.
The best way to do it is to make an appointment with a certified elder law attorney. In my case, my Aunt was the principal and I was her assignee. We both went to the attorney together. The attorney took my Aunt aside to privately interview her for legal cognitive capacity, and to make sure she wasn't being coerced into doing it.
The PoA authority is outlined in a document that the attorney prepares. The principal and assignee sign it in front of a notary with 2 non-family witnesses. In our case we signed 2 originals of the same PoA document so that my Aunt had 1 original copy and I had one.
The principal can specify in the PoA document what the assignee can do on their behalf, and when the authority becomes active.
You can also do this online through sites like Legalzoom.com or Rocketlawyer.com or others, but you need to make very sure the PoA done this way will never have a chance to be contested. I did it this way with my Mom (who is single) and I'm an only child. It was faster, much less expensive, and we still were able to consult with attorneys online who were licensed in our home state.