Formal or Informal Supports and Hiring Family and Friends

What are formal and informal supports, and why you probably don’t want to pay your friends or grandma… The first part is easy. An informal support is when people help and are not paid for their help. To make sense of that, think about what that means when there’s no disability involved. Parents are informal supports for their kids. We don’t get paid to tuck little Joey into bed each night or to cook his dinner. A sibling can be…