No Country for Old People
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Synopsis
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.
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: The Dirty Little Secret
78 min
* Introduction of our protagonists, filmmaker, Susie Singer Carter and her mother, Norma, an 88 year old woman living with Alzheimer’s in a 5 star nursing home in Los Angeles. * The events that trigger a 6-month journey; the thread of the series. * The impact Covid had on nursing homes, their residents, and families. * How Covid pulled the curtain back on the 50 year old nursing home crisis.