Some More News: The Terrible, For-Profit Elder Care Industry

Some More News

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hi. Today we're looking at how we treat our olds. It turns out, poorly! America's network of assisted living and nursing home facilities are largely more concerned with squeezing out profits than taking care of seniors. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link. Hosted by Cody Johnston Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Will Gordh Written by Shawn DePasquale Produced by Jonathan Harris Edited by John Conway Post-Production Supervisor / Motion Graphics & VFX - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell For a limited time get 40% off your first box PLUS get a free item in every box for life at https://hungryroot.com/smn and use code smn. Pretty Litter helps keep your house smelling fresh and clean. Try and you’ll love it! Go to https://PrettyLitter.com/morenews to save 20% on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy. Join thousands of small business owners who have streamlined their finances with Found. Open a Found account for FREE at https://found.com/morenews – Found is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Piermont Bank, Member FDIC. Nobody does selling better than Shopify. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/morenews ALL LOWERCASE PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenews MERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.com

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0:00.0	Old people. We all know one or love one or we'll become one gross.
0:10.0	Usually the president is one. Also hi, welcome to video show. And here's some more news.
0:16.0	Let's talk about nursing homes. You know that bad thing where we joke about how terrible they are
0:22.3	and threaten our turd parents with? But thank goodness, we'll never personally have to experience.
0:28.9	Few! We're going to die on our motorcycles when we're 53 beheaded by a cement truck, just like
0:33.7	that old lady the circus said. Damn that old lady in her haunting, glowing eyes.
0:38.3	Should have put her in a nursing home.
0:40.3	Hey, that reminds me, nursing homes are terrible.
0:48.3	Nursing homes.
0:51.3	Prophets thrive while grandpa dies.
0:55.4	Oh man, I bet this is gonna be a really fun episode.
0:58.1	I can feel it.
0:59.1	So yeah, there's this weird cognitive dissonance
1:01.9	between joking about how bad nursing homes are
1:04.9	and the sobering reality that we or someone we love
1:08.2	will eventually end up in one.
1:10.7	To be specific, 70% of adults who live
1:13.3	over the age of 65 end up needing long-term care. But we don't think about it, do we? And honestly,
1:19.6	that's probably because most of us don't feel like we have much of a choice. Nursing homes,
1:24.3	at least in America, feel as inevitable as death itself. That's probably why we'd rather make jokes about it.
1:30.3	Knock, knock, who's there? Death for everyone.
1:33.3	Eventually.
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