When most people began to seek assisted living/ long term care arrangements, they focus on cost as their number one concern. Recently, I ran into a lady at one of my speaking events . She told me that the reason her mom did not choose to live at the Haven in Allyn was because she was afraid of running out of money and having to move. So, her mom moved into a facility that promised she could covert to Medicaid once she spent all her money. She moved in and the care was terrible, according to the daughter. The facility wrote in her negotiated service agreement, that they were the only one’s that could manage her oxygen. Not, the resident or her daughter. Her daughter said their was many time they did to respond in a timely manor and the mom would go prolong times without oxygen. This attributed to her mom having to be hospitalized twice. The daughter also witness, several mean caregivers on staff that made inappropriate statements regarding her mom. The mom eventually died only several months after living there, leaving the daughter and her brother a lot if money. How does anyone let their mom live in a negative, unhealthy, unloving, and uncaring environment to save money? The lady is now dead and the daughter and son are plague with the memory of their mom being poorly treated while they watched.
Some decision to move into certain facility is a death sentence. Adult children must care enough to protect their parents. Do not close your eyes. The lady in the above story did say she reported this facility several times to DSHS, which is good but her mom is still no longer here. She is Dead.
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