In Episode 10 of Dual: The True Cost of Care, we meet a seventy-year-old person in North Carolina navigating co-pays, insurance claims, and nursing home care after a lifetime shaped by trauma, loss, and care decisions made without her consent.

In a state where many decisions about their life and care were taken from them, this seventy-year-old’s story speaks to resilience and the realities of aging in the South.

As we uncover the true cost of care in North Carolina, this episode asks a direct question: who are our care systems really protecting? 

Learn more about the project and our work:
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Join us next week for Episode 11, where we visit Jennifer in Mississippi.

This project was filmed and edited by District Film Co.