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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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My wife Elizabeth is becoming harder to manage at home even with the help of an IHSS caregiver. She is 90 and has been blind and gradually losing physical capability for the last eight years. She is now barely able to stand with a walker and turn to sit in a wheelchair or commode. I am 82 now and less and less capable of handling her because she has become a dead weight. Two days ago I sprained my knee just trying to lift her to relocate her into the center of the bed at bedtime. And that was with the caregiver and I both lifting a sheet with which to lift her. I am afraid that she is nearing the point of needing full time nursing care since she is blind and incapable of doing much more than eating or drinking things handed to her. And I am less and less able to handle her toilet and bath needs when the caregiver is not here. Both of my knees are failing and, if i continue downhill I will be needing care myself which I cannot afford because I barely do not qualify for medi-cal and thus IHSS. She qualifies for medi-Cal due to her handicaps. However, I have not the slightest idea on how to begin the process of getting her into a nursing home and I don't even know whether her blindness and physical handicap qualifies her for medi-aid supported nursing home care. In other words HELPPPP. I need some professional guidance as to what to do next. If you can help or can refer me to someone who can help, please let me know.
Yes, you both need to be in care now. I would call IHSS and get their recommendations. In fact, your careworker can help you to do this. Let them know it is no longer sustainable for certainly your wife to be home, but possibly you both need placement and assessment.
In the end a call to APS with report of both of the two of you as seniors at risk emergently is likely the way to go if there is no family, and I am assuming there is not, as they are not mentioned. We, of course cannot know any details here. California will allow you to enter care on Medi-cal with a lot more assets (up to 100,000 I do believe) than any other state and with a much shorter lookback (2 1/2 years). You need social workers stepping in to help you now with what you cannot do on your own. APS will give you guidance and contacts and that's where you will start. As to qualifying, if you enter private pay you will get help with transferring that when the time comes.
I wish you good luck. Talk to your worker today and ask for referral to her supervisor, phone number or to the social services of IHSS. You are correct that this cannot be sustained long term.
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:
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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").
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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.
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APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
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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.
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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 would call IHSS and get their recommendations. In fact, your careworker can help you to do this. Let them know it is no longer sustainable for certainly your wife to be home, but possibly you both need placement and assessment.
In the end a call to APS with report of both of the two of you as seniors at risk emergently is likely the way to go if there is no family, and I am assuming there is not, as they are not mentioned.
We, of course cannot know any details here. California will allow you to enter care on Medi-cal with a lot more assets (up to 100,000 I do believe) than any other state and with a much shorter lookback (2 1/2 years). You need social workers stepping in to help you now with what you cannot do on your own. APS will give you guidance and contacts and that's where you will start. As to qualifying, if you enter private pay you will get help with transferring that when the time comes.
I wish you good luck. Talk to your worker today and ask for referral to her supervisor, phone number or to the social services of IHSS. You are correct that this cannot be sustained long term.