Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: health care and guest room

[Four Cat House (seanain]

My understanding of the use of a health aide at the senior co-housing in 
Davis, CA, is somewhat dated (I haven't discussed the arrangement with 
anyone involved there recently). It is that this is a shared community 
resource, not arranged through an agency. The room rented out is an 
offset of wages, and the community is the employer.

There are many, many undocumented people here in CA too, but in this 
case, that is not necessarily the target employee. The target is someone 
who happens to be able to live onsite who also has qualifications as a 
health aide, perhaps providing a bit of care to each household once or 
twice a week. . . . may or may not be undocumented, but willing to earn 
health aid wages offset by rent. Clearly that limits the employee pool.

When a given household has needs that go beyond what is divvied amongst 
residents, then arranging more care for a needy individual, through an 
agency or whatever, is up to that individual's care team (which might 
include members of the community), but does not include the common 
house/extra room.

Seanain