ACL vs Auth when multiple user tables

Hi, everyone!

I have families that have many caregivers and many clients. Each
client and each caregiver belong to one family. I also have
staff_members.

In the simplest form of the authentication system I want to create,
staff would login against the StaffMember model and get routed to one
place, caregivers would login against the Caregiver model and get
routed to another. Each "place" would have its own layout and
functionalities.

The difficulty lies, as I see it, with the built-in Auth component
only being able to use one table to authenticate against. Can I use
more than one table?

Or,

I could combine staff_members with caregivers into one caregivers
table, and identify them at login time by assigning them separate
roles. But how would I be able to use different views depending on the
role of the loggedIn user?

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