No Country for Old People — Season 1, Episode 2: The Ugly Truth
67 min • 1 season, 3 episodes
Episode synopsis
* What is actually happening to the majority of residents in long term care. * The neglect and abuse that has become the standard. * The propaganda put out by the powerful nursing home industry/lobby. * Understaffing. The root of all the problems. * The “Never Events” that occur daily as a result of understaffing * What is actually happening to the majority of residents in long term care. * The neglect and abuse that has become the standard. * The propaganda put out by the powerful nursing home industry/lobby. * Understaffing. The root of all the problems: * The “Never Events” that occur daily as a result of understaffing. * The Ageism & Ableism Epidemic * The deadly power of Private Equity in Nursing Homes. * The Cost of Doing Business * The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto. * The deplorable lack of transparency/accountability. (What we can’t see hurts us.)
About No Country for Old People
A filmmaker chronicles her mother’s last 6 months in a 5-star nursing home exposing the systemic, deadly, profit-over-people business model. No Country For Old People is a scorching documentary posed to set the long term care industry, policy makers, and the country ablaze. Shining a much-needed light on what is truly a national human emergency, it is a clarion call for serious change.