Hey there, I've got something extra for you here.

It's an episode of a show called To See Each Other,

and it kicks off a story about a question that is super relevant to this show,

and one that we haven't taken on.

How do we pay for long-term care, like nursing homes?

To see each other aims to complicate the narrative about small town Americans,

and in this season, host Gale heads to Lincoln County Wisconsin population 28,000 and some and

home to a publicly run nursing home with a five star quality rating from the feds.

Now a conservative county board is planning to sell the home to a private operator

but senior citizens aren't having it.

They show up to board meetings, they march in

a Labor Day parade, and they fight with their last breath. George goes deep

into questions of aging in America and public versus private versions of long-term care

and then nuts and bolts of organizing. So this show is aiming to put you in a fighting

mood and to think differently about aging.

Okay, here comes the episode.

You can find more episodes of To See Each Other,

wherever you get podcasts.

This is To See Each Other,

where we explore how people are fighting for the future of rural America and how writing it off hurts us all.

I'm George Gail. I'm a longtime community organizer and lifelong Midwesterner and in this season of to see each other

We're heading to one of my favorite places Wisconsin to get to know a group of small town senior citizens fighting for the dignity of the elderly and a better future for us all.

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