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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I just read that act and it said that to qualify for over 55 status AT LEAST 80% of residents NEED to be over age 55. So, that means that The Villages COULD be 95% or 100 % to qualify. In my opinion, the nearly 100% would be, personally, preferable to me because age 30 workers could easily commute to work from the nearby non-Villages. I suppose there could be an exception for an over-55 resident that needed nearly full-time care by one of their children in order to continue to live in their home. But, that would be only a small % of residents.
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Because this is a 55+ community, it stands to reason that there will be some folks who require 24/7 home health care. Not all home health caregivers are relatives, some are hired employees. Some of them live in the patient's home. My parents have 24/7 home health care, with 2 people working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week. They have different people on weekends, otherwise it's the same two people monday through friday. Each of them has "residence" access because their job requires them to use their own cars to transport my parents in and out of the community for doctors' appointments, grocery shopping, dining out, everything else. And they have access to the pool, because my mom is still able to swim, and the aide needs to be permitted to sit there. Visitors have limited numbers of days per year they're allowed to enter the community - it is a true gated community.
All of these aides are under 40, and they are granted residence status. Even though it is an age-restricted community. They are not related to my parents in any way, shape, or form (though one of them has been calling them Mom and Dad since they met, it's adorable).