
Elderly Incorporated
Josh Rushing travels across the United States to examine what happens when elder care becomes a corporate business rather than a public service. He visits nursing homes and assisted-living facilities where private equity firms and chains have moved in, and talks to families who describe understaffing, neglect, and rushed evictions once a resident's insurance runs out. Interviews with former employees, industry executives, and regulators lay out how billing incentives and cost-cutting can shape the care an aging patient actually receives, and lawsuits and inspection records back up specific allegations. Rushing also looks at the financial side: how facilities are bought and sold as investment assets, and how that ownership structure can put distance between the people making decisions and the people living with the consequences. The film keeps its focus on individual cases, following specific residents and their relatives through the system, rather than staying at the level of statistics. It ends without a clean fix, leaving the tension between profit and care unresolved.