Almost Home

Viewing & Discussion


Thursday August 3
7:30 p.m.

Join your colleagues for a screening of Almost Home, a stunningly intimate documentary shot on location in a Milwaukee nursing home.

 

 

It tells the unflinchingly honest stories of couples both bonded and divided by disability and dementia, children torn between caring for their parents and caring for their children, nursing assistants doing unsavory work for poverty wages, healthy elders fearful of moving to the “dreaded” nursing home and a visionary nursing home director committed to transforming his 135 year-old hospital-like institution into a true home.  The film’s director/producer, Brad Lichtenstein, and the home’s administrator, John George, will be available for a post-screening discussion.