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Elder-caregivers

mahina

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4. Right?

Reply to DebJ (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 02:20 PM

Sep 2014

The personal dynamics would be infinitely variable, so the residents would ideally be trained in community action, or interested in learning how to organize together. Difference being, rather than a top-down, money-sucking corporation that provides housing and a very low paid nurse's aide on shifts, a better alternative would be organized, governed, and owned by the residents. I'm for it.

Does it go without saying that the residents would be progressive? No gun nuts, no Fox news. When we run the world

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