Care
CARE tells the intimate stories of three overworked and underpaid home care workers — as well as one family struggling to find and pay for quality care.
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With each decade, more Americans are living into their 80s and 90s — and as the “baby boom” ages, the elderly population is exploding. The vast majority of elders want to stay in their homes as long as possible, but the system of family care that historically met the needs of the elderly has been radically changed by women’s entry into the workforce. Family care is increasingly being supplemented and replaced by paid home care. Home care is now the fastest growing occupation in the country, and yet remains one of the least regulated.
CARE demonstrates the profound contribution care workers make to their client’s lives while revealing that our cobbled-together approach to elder care is failing both the elderly and the workers who provide care. The complexity of the issues (along with an aversion to the realities of aging) makes it easier to look away than face the impending crisis. CARE draws viewers into this hidden world through compelling, deeply human stories exposing the elder care dilemmas that virtually every viewer will come to face — either for a loved one or for themselves.