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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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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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In a facility if possible. Dying at home is what people say they want, but it’s horrible for everyone else. The dying person knows less and less. They have little idea where they are as they get closer to death. In a facility there are many people to comfort and look after them, and family can be there too, usually. Then after the dying one slips away, family can go back to a comforting home that is not full of medical equipment. There is nothing quite so awful as watching your dead loved one who died at home be carried out all covered up on a stretcher to the waiting hearse in the driveway.
This happened to me at 15 when I was at our home with my grandparents visiting. My grandfather went to lie down after dinner saying he was tired and would like a cup of tea. The next thing I knew was hearing my grandmother screaming. It was right before Christmas and my parents were out shopping. My grandmother spoke hardly any English and the EMS workers pleaded with me to get her off his body. She kept saying over and over he didn't get to drink his tea.
Respite is for a specific period of time, covered by Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance. (about 6 days I think) In patient continuous care beyond the respite would be private pay past what Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance would cover. Inpatient care can continue IF they are keeping him for Pain management or Symptom management either of these would be covered. Talk to the Hospice and determine what the cost would be and if there alternatives.
Hospice in covered by Medicare. If in the home, there is no cost to the client.
If done in a facility, the cost of the facility is not covered. Hospice provides a Nurse to check on the client 3x a week or so and an aide for bathing 3x a week or so. They provide the care, depends, wipes, chucks, meds given and equipment. The facility is doing the work that family would be doing if Hospice was done "in home". Again, the client pays for being in the facility.
Respite care is in-patient care only, in a skilled nursing facility or hospital: Medicare won’t pay for respite care at home. Although you can receive Medicare-covered respite care more than once during hospice, each stay can only last five days. It is possible that you might need to pay a small copayment for each respite care stay. There are so many different rules and regulations to this, the best advice is to contact Medicare or the Medicare Advantage Program. I hope this little bit of info you might find helpful and I sincerely wish you all the best!
The problem with Medicare Advantages is even though they are suppose to cover Medicare A&B they don't. You have to fight them. At my age, I do not want to fight.
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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If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
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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.
Is this your FIL with state 4 pancreatic cancer?
Are you asking which is preferable/more affordable--to put him in respite care via hospice or admit him to a hospice facility?
In patient continuous care beyond the respite would be private pay past what Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance would cover.
Inpatient care can continue IF they are keeping him for Pain management or Symptom management either of these would be covered.
Talk to the Hospice and determine what the cost would be and if there alternatives.
If done in a facility, the cost of the facility is not covered. Hospice provides a Nurse to check on the client 3x a week or so and an aide for bathing 3x a week or so. They provide the care, depends, wipes, chucks, meds given and equipment. The facility is doing the work that family would be doing if Hospice was done "in home". Again, the client pays for being in the facility.