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Question

1. Chapter 3: Care Labyrinth: What are the three job titles used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to categorize "direct-care" workers caring for older adults and people with disabilities? What makes the "personal care attendant" (PCA) category different from the other two (in terms of professional practice)?

2. Chapter 3: Like Family: What are potential drawbacks and burdens (in working conditions) of being a PCA hired directly by a family or an elderly person, instead of the PCA working through an agency? In other words, what are the potential risks for the PCA when being seen as a "member of the family" and not as a professional employee? Give at least three examples.

3. Chapter 4: Bill of Rights: What benefits and job protections and did the author's Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights (2010) mandate?, and, in what ways does the author say that these rights are often harder to negotiate, because domestic-care work does not follow the same "us vs. them" model of worker vs. employer?

4. Chapter 4: Caring Majority: The author argues that is time to bring a broad variety of people together, who are all "affected" by population aging in the U.S. Who (or what communities) does she see as being most affected by the "elder boom"? Give at least one example of social change that she thinks is needed.

5. Chapter 5: Cooperative Home Care: The author describes several innovative models of worker-owned and managed home-care agencies. Identify and define two cooperative organizations that she mentions, and describe how they can function differently (than owner-operated agencies) to help employees.

6. Chapter 5: Twenty-First Century Care Jobs: The author describes several things that need to be done to improve home-care jobs and strengthen the home-care workforce. Identify and describe one of her suggestions to improve working conditions and identify and describe a national policy change to build and maintain the home-care workforce.