In Episode 8 of Dual: The True Cost of Care, we visit Kim and Kathleen in Tennessee, a mother and daughter doing the best they can to navigate an already fractured system. This is a story about what happens when mental health care becomes warehousing, where family advocacy is the only thing standing between your loved ones surviving as opposed to being forced into the streets. Watch now to understand the lifelong impacts of adverse mental health outcomes and the continued mistreatment dual-eligible disabled people are subject to.

In the episode, Kim and Kathleen describe how difficult it is to access and maintain health care benefits from Medicare and Medicaid, and how, without family advocacy, these complicated systems will push the most vulnerable people of our community into devastation. Watch now to learn more about Kim and Kathleen’s story.

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Join us next week for Episode 9, where we will visit Stephany in Florida.

This project was filmed and edited by District Film Co.