No Country for Old People (2025)
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.
Creator
Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Meredith McCoyd
Episodes
Episodes
The Dirty Little Secret
* 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.
The Ugly Truth
* 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.)
Voices of Loss, Agents of Change
* Whack-A-Mole * Horror Stories * Final days of Norma’s journey * Solutions * Hope * Mobilizing a People Over Profit Movement
Cast
Trailer
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Original Title
No Country for Old People
Status
Returning Series
Seasons
1
Episodes
3