Elderly Incorporated | Fault Lines
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2013
- Fault Lines investigates the business of elderly care, and what happens when corporations put profits ahead of care.
Elder abuse and neglect is one of America’s fastest growing crimes targeting one of its most vulnerable populations. In long-term care facilities, cases are largely out of view and underreported. As a result, countless elderly victims are suffering alone in silence.
One in 3 patients are in facilities failing to meet basic care requirements, while more than $5 billion went to substandard homes in one year alone, according to the U.S. government. Many nursing homes reported staffing levels insufficient to provide adequate care, including some of the largest for-profit chains in the U.S., says one study. Enforcement agencies say they are limited by new budget cuts.
Fault Lines investigates how problems of government oversight and corporate accountability persist in many states-and how poorly rated facilities continue to operate without penalties, despite repeated offenses.
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I am so disgusted ......how can people do that .....it just cruel
That's horrific.
Once again a great documentary from Fault Lines. Absolutely shocking treatment with people being neglected and stripped of their dignity.
I don't blame nursing home for all this atrocities on our love ones, who took care of us from when they knew they are pregnant but the CHILDREN are too lazy to find time to care for their old age folks. If we all take it upon ourselves to love and care for our parents when they are old all nursing homes will be out of business and we don't have to pay into a system that is full of corruption just like the MEDICARE & MEDICAID. This is just sad.
Olanrewaju Oyenuga People gotta work. They don't have time to take care of them. Derp.
@@Sasha32659yeah, very infantile, out of touch, and just downright delusional.
This is so right on, I live it everyday. It's sad to see it happening all over the world
Institutional care with no oversight or no performance criteria is a recipe for disaster. Having said that there are good stories too out there. It is good that articles like this shines more light on the severity of the issue. However, the good ones out there too get a bad name just by associating with the industry.
It is very difficult to maintain a balance between running a decent service and maintaining a good profit margin. The more litigation, inspections and regulations we have, the slower and more expensive the service becomes.
Abuses will occur whenever there are vulnerable and highly dependent people requiring intensive physical and emotional care that can only be provided by poorly paid, poorly selected, trained and prepared care staff.
Reporters did a great job.
FAULT LINES is a long established show they have done a great deal of good work.
Doesn't it seem odd that AlJazeera is doing this piece? Makes me wonder - just seems odd.
As for the elderly, we have much to learn from Asia and the East on reverence for one of our greatest natural resources - our elderly. These are they who have made it thru so very much, in their time, and gained the wisdom of hindsight, if nothing else. They are priceless.
Yet our attitudes must change, first, for they are what has manifested this. Internal change precedes the external change we want.
I agree that we need to hold our elders in higher respect, but to date, it seems the Eastern societies are following in the west's footsteps; the suicide rate among the elderly in South Korea is disturbingly high because their children have abandoned them, and they have no one else to care for them. China isn't to far behind, either.
horrific
SO so so sad...not just terrify. zero respect.
Because the mainstream media would never do such a piece.
we get endless propaganda about how great the usa is, but i'll tell you, when it comes to elder care, we suck sh!t. i've been in a few nursing homes in france and it's like night and day.
I am utterly disgusted at the "care" provided by these over priced nursing homes. I had to stop watching the doc because the images were too graphic.
I'll definitely give you that one. Those trained major-media bears do as they're told :-\