Home care in Auburn, California

Auburn and Lincoln both report 27.0 percent of residents aged 65 or over, which is the highest share in our service area, and they could not have arrived there more differently. Lincoln's comes from one enormous purpose-built development. Auburn's is diffuse: people who bought a house in the foothills decades ago and never left. The median resident here is 47.5 years old, against 38.5 across the Sacramento metro.

That distinction is not academic, because it decides what the care looks like. There is no 55-plus community to organize around, no clubhouse noticeboard, no neighbor two doors down going through the same thing. Auburn families arrange care one household at a time, often for a parent who has been in the same house since before the town had a supermarket, and who regards leaving it as out of the question. We agree with them, which is the whole point of what we do.

The town sits at 1,227 feet in the northern Sierra foothills, about 800 feet above the American River confluence. Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital on Education Street is the only acute-care hospital in town, with 64 beds and a basic emergency room; anything higher-acuity goes down to Sutter Roseville. Auburn is about thirty miles from our office, the furthest city we serve, which is exactly why we match caregivers who already live up there.