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Season 7 Episode 15: Almost Home

Almost Home rescues from an exile of denial the real stories of aging that lie in the vast middle between the uber-heroic octogenarian marathoner and the feeble geriatric that most Americans fear becoming. A feature length, cinema-verité film shot on location in a continuing care community that boasts a nursing home transforming its medical (think hospital) model of care into a holistic one (think home), Almost Home is a stunningly intimate film that combines the institution’s struggle to shake the nursing home stigma with tender, sometimes difficult, stories of people who live, work and visit there.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

27

Episodes:

542

Cast:

Stanley Tucci

Quality:

HD

Duration:

84 min

First Air:

1999

Rating:

6.6