What We’re Watching
“No Country for Old People: a Nursing Home Expose” is a harrowing, heartbreaking, and haunting account of the abject failure of the nursing home care system. Filmmaker Susie Singer Carter chronicles her mother’s last six months in a facility and draws on experts and advocates to shed light on why the system is failing. The three-part docuseries is available on Amazon Prime. Watch a news clip about the film at the link below.
A Long-Term Plan for Aging
Experts predict a crisis in long-term care as demand grows and the number of available workers decreases. The industry is facing multiple challenges, including a rapidly aging population, the potential for an even more pronounced labor shortage due to punitive immigration policies, and cost-of-care increases equaling as much as 10 percent for some services. Furthermore, according to a recent poll, significant numbers of adults have misconceptions about long-term care coverage, and only a small percentage have an assisted living plan in place. How do you assess the likelihood of needing long-term care, and what options are available to you? The NYT offers some thoughts.