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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.
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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.
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I'm having a consultation with a doula tomorrow as I explore this as a helpful form of additional support as my dad's time draws near. Would be interested in any experiences anyone would like to share if you have worked with a doula before. Thanks!
Please consider joining FEN (FinalExit.org). Look it up online. 50.00 for a year membership and you are supporting Final Exit and their excellent work. You will read not only about Final Exit's "Guides" but about Doulas as well. They are wonderfully helpful. But like all people doing this work they vary personally one from another, so the consultation is a great idea.
If you are considering VSED I recommend The VSED Handbook by Kate Christie, on Amazon for about 14.00 with excellent resource guide at the back.
Good luck. Tell us how it goes and what you learn, because YOU will be the EXPERT now on this.
I do not have personal experience with using a doula. I do have a relative who is a doula, she’s a very kind person. I know that her training to be a doula consisted only of another doula sharing what she does in the role. There has never been any other training. I was with my father throughout his final days on hospice in his home, and came away convinced that dying is very much a solo journey. In the end, though I was holding his hand, he’d long gone to another place. Decide what you’re comfortable with and follow that. I wish you peace
Hi! Yes, we met yesterday and she is wonderful. In addition to being a trained palliative care professional, she has been a hospice liaison for a local hospital for years and she has completed the training that exists to date for this type of work. I am her client in this vs my father who is on hospice, but she also met him briefly yesterday to get a sense of him and his current comfort and will come back tomorrow. Talking with her is like having another set of eyes and ears - not to second guess hospice, but to get underneath anything that may be raising doubts or questions that I haven't asked them for any reason. She will also be here as much or as little as I ask as my dad's final days approach, whether that is to sit with me or sit with Dad, or both. She'll also help me look at how I want this chapter to close for me, especially given I am an only child and Dad is my surviving parent.
I'm fortunate to have many friends who are providing amazing support right now too, but this is different and welcome support as well. Sort of like having a professional coach (which I am too, but focused on leadership) to accompany me on my journey through end-of-life caregiving and grief. I wish I had contacted her sooner.
In the bonus department, we didn't know it until we met, but we also share the same faith tradition and have a number of people and experiences in common in that arena of our lives. I chose her from the doula directory but feel her presence in my life at this particular time and beyond is a God wink.
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.
Look it up online. 50.00 for a year membership and you are supporting Final Exit and their excellent work.
You will read not only about Final Exit's "Guides" but about Doulas as well. They are wonderfully helpful. But like all people doing this work they vary personally one from another, so the consultation is a great idea.
If you are considering VSED I recommend The VSED Handbook by Kate Christie, on Amazon for about 14.00 with excellent resource guide at the back.
Good luck. Tell us how it goes and what you learn, because YOU will be the EXPERT now on this.
I have a niece that is on the opposite end of the spectrum. She’s a birth doula. It’s an interesting line of work.
I was with my father throughout his final days on hospice in his home, and came away convinced that dying is very much a solo journey. In the end, though I was holding his hand, he’d long gone to another place. Decide what you’re comfortable with and follow that. I wish you peace
I'm fortunate to have many friends who are providing amazing support right now too, but this is different and welcome support as well. Sort of like having a professional coach (which I am too, but focused on leadership) to accompany me on my journey through end-of-life caregiving and grief. I wish I had contacted her sooner.
In the bonus department, we didn't know it until we met, but we also share the same faith tradition and have a number of people and experiences in common in that arena of our lives. I chose her from the doula directory but feel her presence in my life at this particular time and beyond is a God wink.
I hope that you will find the answers to your concerns. I wish you peace as you continue on this journey.