Are you sure you want to exit? Your progress will be lost.
Who are you caring for?
Which best describes their mobility?
How well are they maintaining their hygiene?
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?
Which best describes your loved one's social life?
Acknowledgment of Disclosures and Authorization
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.
✔
I acknowledge and authorize
✔
I consent to the collection of my consumer health data.*
✔
I consent to the sharing of my consumer health data with qualified home care agencies.*
*If I am consenting on behalf of someone else, I have the proper authorization to do so. By clicking Get My Results, you agree to our Privacy Policy. You also consent to receive calls and texts, which may be autodialed, from us and our customer communities. Your consent is not a condition to using our service. Please visit our Terms of Use. for information about our privacy practices.
Mostly Independent
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.
Remember, this assessment is not a substitute for professional advice.
Share a few details and we will match you to trusted home care in your area:
I’m unsure if that is a rule of thumb, or if it’s because of the particular needs of the individual. For example, do they tend to wander? Have esophagus issues and tend to choke while eating or swallowing in general? Are they a danger to themselves or others?
AD is a progressive brain disease that in the early stages may allow the person to function quite normally. However, as the disease begins to destroy the nerves in the brain, over many years, the ability to care for oneself safely is lost. In most cases performing activities of daily living become a challenge that the person needs help with. Dressing, eating, toileting are activities that the caregiver must help with. Safety becomes an issue like leaving stove burners on, not taking meds, wandering (leaving the house at 2 AM), having hallucinations and delusions where the mind plays tricks on a person who can't discern reality from fantasy, all of these eventually requires the person to have increased care. Often, the caregiver doesn't have 36 hours a day to monitor and care for their LO. Caring for a LO at home takes a tremendous toll on the caregiver both emotionally, physically and health wise.
AD affects everyone differently. Some patients may live out their lives at home with the help of home care agencies, private paid caregivers and hospice, while others need the professional care and security that a care facility provides. So although the disease may be manageable for a while, eventually help may be needed to allow the caregiver to get the rest and the “me” time they need to stay healthy.
Cheyenne93, usually toward the end of having Alzheimer's, the person could resort back to being "child like", thus the reason to have around the clock care.
For more information, go to the blue/green bar near the top of the place and click on CARE TOPICS..... then click on Alzheimer's/Dementia topics. Lot of excellent material to read. The more one knows the better it is to understand what in the world is happening.
I get from this post and your profile that caring for you DH is becoming very hard. You too are a Senior. Doing 24/7 care is very hard on anyone, even harder on Seniors approaching 80. You may just need to place him. Before you do, please protect yourself. Medicaid allows for splitting of marital assets. Your DHs split would be spent on his care and Medicaid applied for when the money runs out. You remain in the home and get a car. You will nedd to see a lawyer well versed in Medicaid.
People with Alzheimer's/dementia depending on how advanced it is need 24/7 care the same way a toddler does if they're still mobile and able to get around. When you put a baby down for a nap or in their playpen you are not standing there watching them continually. You do not have to care for them while they are there or in their crib asleep. You just have to make sure there is nothing they can get hurt with. Same thing when caring for people that have Alzheimer's/dementia. You don't have to entertain them every moment. You don't have to be available to wait upon their every want and whim 24 hours a day like a slave. You have to make sure their safe and not getting hurt.
Babies grow up ..learn how to walk. & toilet themselves, learn how to talk..you can carry them anywhere you go , they’re portable, their diapers small & you can clean them & turn them & they smile at you.
Elderly dementia patients fall often & break bones, incontinent , immobile, they curse & hit you when you try to change diapers, they forgot who you are, you can’t move them without killing your back & need lift machine to just move them from bed to wheelchair & back to bed
Does an Alzheimer's patient need constant care? To which I responded with, "You just have to make sure there is nothing they can get hurt with". This is the same as you would do for a baby. Whereas if the baby is secured and there's nothing for them to get hurt on they can be left in their playpen or napping in their crib. There doesn't have to be a security detail standing above them 24 hours a day. There does not have to be one for someone with Alzheimer's either.
No, I did not say nor do I think the actual care is the same for an Alzheimer's sufferer as it is for a baby. I would rather care for half a dozen babies at the same time than for one person who's gone with Alzheimer's.
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.
There’s a lot that could be at play, here…
AD affects everyone differently. Some patients may live out their lives at home with the help of home care agencies, private paid caregivers and hospice, while others need the professional care and security that a care facility provides. So although the disease may be manageable for a while, eventually help may be needed to allow the caregiver to get the rest and the “me” time they need to stay healthy.
For more information, go to the blue/green bar near the top of the place and click on CARE TOPICS..... then click on Alzheimer's/Dementia topics. Lot of excellent material to read. The more one knows the better it is to understand what in the world is happening.
When you put a baby down for a nap or in their playpen you are not standing there watching them continually. You do not have to care for them while they are there or in their crib asleep. You just have to make sure there is nothing they can get hurt with.
Same thing when caring for people that have Alzheimer's/dementia. You don't have to entertain them every moment. You don't have to be available to wait upon their every want and whim 24 hours a day like a slave. You have to make sure their safe and not getting hurt.
Elderly dementia patients fall often & break bones, incontinent , immobile, they curse & hit you when you try to change diapers, they forgot who you are, you can’t move them without killing your back & need lift machine to just move them from bed to wheelchair & back to bed
Still think it’s the same thing?
The question posted was:
Does an Alzheimer's patient need constant care?
To which I responded with, "You just have to make sure there is nothing they can get hurt with". This is the same as you would do for a baby. Whereas if the baby is secured and there's nothing for them to get hurt on they can be left in their playpen or napping in their crib. There doesn't have to be a security detail standing above them 24 hours a day. There does not have to be one for someone with Alzheimer's either.
No, I did not say nor do I think the actual care is the same for an Alzheimer's sufferer as it is for a baby. I would rather care for half a dozen babies at the same time than for one person who's gone with Alzheimer's.