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Catalogue Number: 041669
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Health and Medicine, Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
FRONTLINE: Life and Death in Assisted Living
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Catalogue Number: 041669
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: Health and Medicine, Social Issues
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
Nearly 750,000 elderly Americans are spending their later years in for-profit assisted living facilities. This loosely regulated, multibillion-dollar industry is dominated by one company: Emeritus Senior Living. In a year-long investigation, FRONTLINE and ProPublica raise questions about fatal lapses in care, understaffing, and a quest for profits.
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