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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 lives at home. Medication given by me or her caregiver (40 hours average per week). She could never do by herself. In fact, I must watch or she would spit the meds out on occasion.
Is your mother at home? Independent Living? Assisted Living? My mother is a resident of AL and I pay about $250/mo. to have her meds handed to her. She couldn't seem to remember when or if she took her prescriptions before.
There are machines called telemedicine. A machine is set up in her house and an automated voice will remind her of medicine and text a professional after a few prompts to take the medicine are not followed. A home health nurse or care management provider can direct you how to get one. If you have an IKOR office wher you live they have a vendor but all Home Health care agencies should have telemedicine.
MedMinder is a new "electronic" medication adherence product that might be worth looking into. It has several methods of reminding someone to take their meds and will notify others if there is noncompliance.
The people who answer questions on this site do not have the authority to order anything. We just share our knowledge. Contact your mother's doctor to have services in the home which can provide nurses who can dispense medication to your mother based on doctor's orders.
It would depend on why assist is needed. Is it an issue with memory or cognition? Vision? Fine motor dexterity to deal with pills? There are different solutions depending on the cause of the diffficulty.
We couldn't get someone to come morning and eve. To dispense meds, and they wanted $12 for each hour if they came. I found a wonderful machine. $99 to install and show me how it works, 24 hr. hotline for help. $49.99 a month for rental. Moms health is MUCH improved. Neither of moms doctors had a suggestion who to call. It's called Philips Lifeline (home. Monitoring). One number for all services. 1888-632-3261. It tells her time for meds, says thank you when she removes the cup, and reminds her to drink extra fluids. Had a dispenser from Lutheran services that rotated for each dose, dinged, and lights flashed. She figured out that she could turn it with her finger and that was the end of her taking the right meds when it went off. I was going crazy trying to get her to leave it alone. It was a lot cheaper. $39 to install and $14.95 a month. Mom did good for nearly a year because she believed it couldn't be turned. You would hope (since she can't remember trying on shoes and they are still in the cart) that she would have forgotten when she accidentally turned it. The Lifeline dispenser is great. A wonderful guy at Lutheran Services (who provided the first dispenser). Found out about this one. I actually sent info to one of moms doctors about it, by request. I think we should share these findings with Drs. who haven't heard about them yet. You can leave a message for me for more info.
If mom is able to take her "morning meds" if already placed in a medicine box, I know some smaller pharmacies will fill a medicine box each week (morning, lunch, dinner) but you need to return the box each week to be refilled. There does come a time when this is just not possible for the elder to do by themselves.
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.
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.
My mother is a resident of AL and I pay about $250/mo. to have her meds handed to her. She couldn't seem to remember when or if she took her prescriptions before.
I found a wonderful machine. $99 to install and show me how it works, 24 hr. hotline for help. $49.99 a month for rental. Moms health is MUCH improved.
Neither of moms doctors had a suggestion who to call.
It's called Philips Lifeline (home. Monitoring). One number for all services. 1888-632-3261. It tells her time for meds, says thank you when she removes the cup, and reminds her to drink extra fluids.
Had a dispenser from Lutheran services that rotated for each dose, dinged, and lights flashed. She figured out that she could turn it with her finger and that was the end of her taking the right meds when it went off. I was going crazy trying to get her to leave it alone. It was a lot cheaper. $39 to install and $14.95 a month.
Mom did good for nearly a year because she believed it couldn't be turned. You would hope (since she can't remember trying on shoes and they are still in the cart) that she would have forgotten when she accidentally turned it. The Lifeline dispenser is great. A wonderful guy at Lutheran Services (who provided the first dispenser). Found out about this one. I actually sent info to one of moms doctors about it, by request. I think we should share these findings with Drs. who haven't heard about them yet.
You can leave a message for me for more info.