The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care

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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Residential care homes seem like the perfect place for Mom or Grandpa to live out their golden years, but their home-like facades are hiding rampant wage theft and exploitation of caregivers. Reveal’s Jennifer Gollan takes us into her investigation of the care-home industry.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:07.9	I'm Al Ezen.
0:11.7	Sonya Desa is following a familiar route to her bank.
0:16.0	She's driving through the streets of Anya, California, a sprawling commuter city about
0:21.1	an hour northeast of San Francisco.
0:23.8	Turn right onto Pruitt Ranch Drive.
0:26.6	Chain restaurants like chilies and pandas express fill peach and beige strip malls.
0:31.7	Sonya's heading to one now.
0:33.0	We go there in Bank of America and in Redwood.
0:35.9	The side of the bank brings back some bad memories.
0:39.0	I feel sad at that time.
0:41.7	Sonya is now 67 years old.
0:44.9	Originally from the Philippines, she has a serious face that instantly softens when she smiles.
0:51.5	That's it, arrived.
0:53.4	Last time she was at this bank, Sonya was with a boss.
0:57.0	And as she gets out of the car now, she scans the parking lot, worrying that he might
1:01.2	be around.
1:02.2	So, she puts on her sunglasses as kind of a disguise.
1:05.5	I can hide it, you little nut.
1:08.8	She says, her boss brought it to this bank to cash a check.
1:12.7	A check he had written her for back pay he owed her.
1:15.6	I had to go in line.
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