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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?
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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.
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.
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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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POA are not in effect until the principle is considered incompetent, unless an immediate one. So you need to read ur POA. So if your partner is competent he can handle his own affairs. Yours would only kick in if he was in a coma or something along those lines.
"How can a POA impact a nurses care". A Nurse in a hospital, rehab, NH or AL? Give an example what a Nurse (RN, LPN) would be doing that a POA would need to step in and question?
If there is NO power of attorney, the hospital has to do everything in its power to "save" the patient, even if they are terminally ill and suffering.
A good power of attorney informs themself about the patient's condition and works with the medical team for the best possible outcome. The patient, who has lost their ability to make their wishes known, has an effective and compasionate advocate
A negative consequence can be that the person who is POA is at odds with the rest of the family and uses the POA as a sledgehammer to enforce non-visitation, restricts access to knowledge of the patient's condition, lords it over their siblings that "mom likes me best". Tries to boss around medical team and reduces staff to tears with impossible demands and threats of legal action.
Well I give our young friend full marks for chutzpah, anyway..!
Positive: a well-exercised Medical POA will allow a nurse to verify information about a patient who may not be able to remember his or her own history and may struggle to understand what he or she is being asked. It also permits the nurse to discuss confidential medical information with the person who holds the MPOA, making it possible to reach decisions which everyone can be more certain are what the patient would want.
Negative: sometimes people with MPOA may ask a nurse to do something which the nurse does not believe is in the patient's best interests*. The nurse will rely on professional codes of conduct to refuse, and can also refer the difference of opinion to his or her line manager to avoid direct conflict with the person holding MPOA.
*I am not a nurse. Examples from social care of instructions from a MPOA which would give us headaches might include: applying creams without proper documentation and authorisations; "double-padding" - i.e. using continence care products inappropriately, which can increase the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores; restraint of a client; coercing or tricking a client into taking medication. If an MPOA asks a worker or caregiver or HCA to do things like this, you refuse firmly but politely, explain (if you can get a word in edgeways), and report to your line manager.
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.
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POA are not in effect until the principle is considered incompetent, unless an immediate one. So you need to read ur POA. So if your partner is competent he can handle his own affairs. Yours would only kick in if he was in a coma or something along those lines.
"How can a POA impact a nurses care". A Nurse in a hospital, rehab, NH or AL? Give an example what a Nurse (RN, LPN) would be doing that a POA would need to step in and question?
A good power of attorney informs themself about the patient's condition and works with the medical team for the best possible outcome. The patient, who has lost their ability to make their wishes known, has an effective and compasionate advocate
A negative consequence can be that the person who is POA is at odds with the rest of the family and uses the POA as a sledgehammer to enforce non-visitation, restricts access to knowledge of the patient's condition, lords it over their siblings that "mom likes me best". Tries to boss around medical team and reduces staff to tears with impossible demands and threats of legal action.
Positive: a well-exercised Medical POA will allow a nurse to verify information about a patient who may not be able to remember his or her own history and may struggle to understand what he or she is being asked. It also permits the nurse to discuss confidential medical information with the person who holds the MPOA, making it possible to reach decisions which everyone can be more certain are what the patient would want.
Negative: sometimes people with MPOA may ask a nurse to do something which the nurse does not believe is in the patient's best interests*. The nurse will rely on professional codes of conduct to refuse, and can also refer the difference of opinion to his or her line manager to avoid direct conflict with the person holding MPOA.
*I am not a nurse. Examples from social care of instructions from a MPOA which would give us headaches might include: applying creams without proper documentation and authorisations; "double-padding" - i.e. using continence care products inappropriately, which can increase the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores; restraint of a client; coercing or tricking a client into taking medication. If an MPOA asks a worker or caregiver or HCA to do things like this, you refuse firmly but politely, explain (if you can get a word in edgeways), and report to your line manager.