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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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Who is his PoA? This is the person who needs to step up and in. If your Dad has the onset of dementia, then the PoA will need to read the document as to how to activate the legal authority to cancel his phones and stop him from getting new ones.
If your Dad doesn't have an assigned PoA then it may not be too late to try to convince him to do so. Legal capacity is mostly determined by the attorney who would interview him at the appointment. The bar is pretty low, so even if your Dad is displaying ovbious symptoms, even mild memory impairment, he may still have capacity.
Your Dad needs an exam by his primary physician so he can get a cognitive/memory test and possibly a diagnosis. This diagnosis of sufficient incapacity is what will activate the PoA authority. And it will help his family understand where he's at and what to expect in the near future. Knowing his financial landscape will be important to planning for his near future care needs.
If your Dad is agitated then the physical exam by his primary will pave the way for meds for anxiety and depression should he need it... and a large number of elders do.
If you are seeing obvious signs of uncommon behavior, then it is possible he is actually already in moderate level of dementia (if this is what he has). Often, dementia is definitively diagnosed by discounting all other possible medical causes.
An immediate option is to have those phones "disappear". You can replace them with a phone for people with dementia. I have a RAZ Mobility phone for my Mom who is 95. She was starting to call "customer service" every time she forgot how to work an appliance in her home; calling family members to come over and "fix" those items, misdialing and almost giving away sensitive info; etc. It looks like a smart phone but I control it from an app on my phone. No one calls her unless I put them in her contacts. She can only call contacts I put in her phone.
But your Dad seems to have access to a credit card and maybe the internet and a car if he keeps getting phones for himself. More info would be helpful.
Get him a granpad - it blocks spammers and it works on data not wifi you can set it up that only the people he knows can call him. He would be able to call anyone but only the people you program in the phone are allowed to call. Then give him a different number to memorize so he cannot give out the number. Turn down the ringer for the landline and hide the receiver so only you know where it is - thats if he still has a landline.
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.
If your Dad doesn't have an assigned PoA then it may not be too late to try to convince him to do so. Legal capacity is mostly determined by the attorney who would interview him at the appointment. The bar is pretty low, so even if your Dad is displaying ovbious symptoms, even mild memory impairment, he may still have capacity.
Your Dad needs an exam by his primary physician so he can get a cognitive/memory test and possibly a diagnosis. This diagnosis of sufficient incapacity is what will activate the PoA authority. And it will help his family understand where he's at and what to expect in the near future. Knowing his financial landscape will be important to planning for his near future care needs.
If your Dad is agitated then the physical exam by his primary will pave the way for meds for anxiety and depression should he need it... and a large number of elders do.
If you are seeing obvious signs of uncommon behavior, then it is possible he is actually already in moderate level of dementia (if this is what he has). Often, dementia is definitively diagnosed by discounting all other possible medical causes.
An immediate option is to have those phones "disappear". You can replace them with a phone for people with dementia. I have a RAZ Mobility phone for my Mom who is 95. She was starting to call "customer service" every time she forgot how to work an appliance in her home; calling family members to come over and "fix" those items, misdialing and almost giving away sensitive info; etc. It looks like a smart phone but I control it from an app on my phone. No one calls her unless I put them in her contacts. She can only call contacts I put in her phone.
But your Dad seems to have access to a credit card and maybe the internet and a car if he keeps getting phones for himself. More info would be helpful.