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Aleta Ayo has a warm smile and a friendly demeanor — and both come into play in her job as a long-term care worker in Denver. She followed her mom into the business.
“I had been going to work with her ever since I was little,” she said. “So caring or being a caretaker just became something natural to me.”
A few years ago, she took a job with Meadow Vista Assisted Living in Denver, a facility licensed for up to eight residents, which cares for Medicaid patients. Ayo described looking after six or seven people at a time with a variety of mental and physical disabilities.
“Different personalities, different mood swings, different mental behaviors, different behaviors in general, different emotions,” she said in an interview.
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She called it rewarding but hard work. But perhaps the biggest challenge was that she was the lone employee taking care of the group. Her compensation package included a $30,000 a year salary. But it required her to live at the facility. And it required Ayo be responsible for staffing 24 hours a day, seven days a week — and all 365 days of the year.
This went on for years. “I do feel taken advantage of,” Ayo said. “I really think they (the owners) thought I was...stupid or...just beneath them.”
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