A população de Japão está envelhecendo consideravelmente e cuidar de pessoas idosas tornou-se oneroso. O governo propõe uma solução: Uma cama eletrônica que possa fornecer o paciente todo o essencial (e o não-essencial) que uma enfermeira de verdade possa vir a oferecer. Haruko é uma de tais enfermeiras, assim como o senhor Takazawa é seu paciente, que foi escolhido como um cobaia para a tal cama eletrônica. Sentindo que seu protegido esta sofrendo de falta da amor, do qual uma cama mecânica não pode oferecer, ela tenta salvá-lo do que acha ser um martírio para ele.
Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on the street. She survives her first night by striking up an ambiguous friendship with a kindly old man, gaining access to a portion of the immense wealth held by Japan's aging population. She continues with similar encounters, and while these begin as scams or revenge on rampant sexism, they ultimately become vulnerable intergenerational exchanges.
Three juxtaposing stories taking place in Portugal, Austria and Cuba create an intimate and poetic portrait of the daily lives and struggles of the elderly in an unstable world, seen through the eyes of their grandchildren.
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…
Apart from running a mall, Gaurav Rane has to take care of his widower father Janardhan and bail him out of the misadventures he gets into due to the influence of his father's eccentric friend Mr. Mathur. Gaurav soon falls in love with his former classmate Shikha and they find out about Janardhan's long lost love and they decide to reunite the lovers.
When twenty year old care worker Sam is suddenly allocated the primary caregiver of grumpy resident Tommy, things don't look too bright. But after they realise they have more in common than may seem, an unlikely friendship begins; one that could change the trajectory of Sam's life forever.
A recently widowed Mr. Jordan finds himself stuck in the health system as he battles cancer alone.
An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
O filme enfoca temas quentes como crise de meia-idade, responsabilidades familiares, cuidados com os idosos e educação dos filhos. O irmão mais novo; o neto usa a tecnologia do metaverso para reunir o avô e a falecida avó; a ingênua e rica segunda geração passa pela transformação do destino no campo e encontra o valor da vida através da amizade.
Um grupo de idosos vive as paixões e dores dos seus dias no centro de dia de Sandim, Vila Nova de Gaia. Acompanhamo-los entre Outubro de 2012 e Março de 2013, quando uma crise económica ensombrou a sociedade portuguesa e as taxas de desemprego atingiram níveis recorde. No centro de dia os utentes conversam, praticam yoga, fazem bricolage e rezam. Entretanto, vão sendo feitos os arranjos para o baile de Carnaval. Será que trazem o primeiro lugar para casa desta vez?
Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong.
A retirement home nurse has a side gig selling medication to addicts. Then one of her patients celebrates their centennial.
A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke and co-scripted by Helke and Markku Heikkinen. DocPoint’s opening film is new in its format, and jolting in its message. It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.
80-year-old retiree Arthur lives in a modest council home in Vienna. For quite some time he has lovingly been caring for his seriously ill wife Martha, with only female nurses assisting him. As he finds Fabiu, the new male Hungarian care worker, on his doorstep, his routine is broken. But soon the two men become closer and inside Arthur feelings of desire and suppressed longing start to rise.
One day at a holiday home for the disabled in Hammerdal, Jämtland, depicted in clay animation and with authentic sound from the home that the film tells about. Various episodes show everyday events and relationships between the old ones who have lent their voices and characters to the movie figures. The film shows how an ordinary day looks like meals, mail delivery, card games and visits to the Salvation Army. In the end, the real people compare and comment on their characters.
In this awards-winning documentary, that aired nationwide on PBS stations in the United States, 71-year-old caregiver Marge fights for the relationship of her life, seeking to sustain her physically declining husband Walter with energy, hope, and love. (The web-exclusive series Caring for Walter is a re-edited version of this documentary and includes bonus interviews on the challenges of family caregiving.)
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.
No ambiente despojado de uma residência de idosos, Libardo e Alba começam a viver uma história de amor. A partir da descoberta de seus sentimentos, tudo o que pensam é em estar juntos. Torna-se uma obsessão para eles encontrar formas de juntar dinheiro que lhes permita pagar uma noite num hotel para que desfrutem de uma intimidade impossível na instituição.
Due to the increasing privatization of basic public services in Spain, companies such as BB Serveis are accused of misappropriating several million euros of public money intended to finance care for the elderly and other dependent persons.