Care, not profit,
through aging, illness, and death.
THE CRISIS
The elder care system is not broken. It is working exactly as designed — for investors, not for elders or their caregivers.
Penalties as Cost of Business
Fines are cheaper than the fix. The industry treats them as a line item on a $170 billion balance sheet.
Read more →Regulators Look Away
CMS halted enforcement of safety rules at the industry’s own request. The agencies meant to protect have been structured not to.
Read more →Displacement as Hostage
“Close us and your loved ones are on the street.” The industry weaponizes compassion as a shield against accountability.
Read more →Hidden Ownership
Shell companies obscure who profits. Sixty-three percent of nursing home earnings are tunneled through related parties.
Read more →The Revolving Door
$133 million in lobbying. 55% of industry lobbyists are former government regulators.
Read more →Captive Customers
Residents cannot leave. The owner runs the pharmacy, therapy, staffing, and hospice — all billing the same captive population.
Read more →Private Equity Extraction
Buy, load with debt, strip staff, extract profit, declare bankruptcy. Repeat.
Read more →Exploited Workforce
61% workers of color. Median pay $26,000. Half on public assistance. Immigration status weaponized to ensure silence.
Read more →Ageism as Permission
If the victims were children, none of this would be tolerable. Their age is, functionally, permission.
Read more →WHAT WE BELIEVE
The care of elders is a human mandate — expressed in every wisdom tradition, encoded in every culture, and binding on every community.
When elder care is treated as a revenue center, caregivers are overburdened and elders suffer.
Caregivers — paid and unpaid — deserve living wages, legal protection, and freedom from exploitation.
Every person, regardless of age or capacity, possesses inherent worth that no market logic can diminish.
We stand against the structures that convert human vulnerability into profit.
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Explore →Organize
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Stories from inside the system. The voices the architecture is designed to silence.
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