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Year Released:
 2004

THE OPEN ROAD: AMERICA LOOKS AT AGING is an hour-long documentary that examines the impending retirement of America's baby boomers on both society as a whole and on individual choices for the future.

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Year Released:
 2007

This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Year Released:
 2012

Americans overwhelmingly say they prefer to die at home, but most deaths actually occur in hospitals or other long-term care facilities. Aging Matters: End of Life explores the complicated experience of dying and why so few of us get the death we say we want.

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Available on:
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Year Released:
 2008

Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever.

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Deceased. Departed. Passed On. No matter how you say it, it happens to all of us. Death is as much a part of human existence as is life, yet it remains a mysterious, often taboo subject.

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Available on:
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Year Released:
 2005

Medical advances have enabled an unprecedented number of Americans to live longer and healthier lives, but this new longevity has also had unintended consequences.

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Year Released:
 2012

The Retirement Gamble raises troubling questions about how America's financial institutions protect our retirement savings.

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Death is something we will all one day face. So why is it so hard for doctors to talk with their patients about dying?

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Year Released:
 2012

More and more elderly Americans are spending their later years in assisted living, which has sprung up as an alternative to nursing homes.

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Year Released:
 2009

FRONTLINE gains access to the ICU of one of New York's biggest hospitals to examine the complicated reality of today's modern, medicalized death.

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