Elderly Incorporated: slideshow

Residents practice playing their harmonicas at Epworth Villa Retirement Community just outside of Oklahoma City. Photo Credit: Josh Rushing

Residents at Epworth Villa Retirement Community take part in a line dancing class. Epworth Villa is an upscale retirement community just outside of Oklahoma City. Photo Credit: Josh Rushing

The grand staircase at Epworth Villa Retirement Community just outside of Oklahoma City. Epworth Villa receives some of the highest marks in its inspections. Photo Credit: Josh Rushing

A resident of Epworth Villa Retirement Community, just outside of Oklahoma City, takes part in a line dancing class. Nearly half of all Americans will spend some time in a nursing home during their life. Photo Credit: Josh Rushing

Residents practice playing their harmonicas at Epworth Villa Retirement Community just outside of Oklahoma City. Photo Credit: Josh Rushing

An elderly woman at the VA plays Bingo. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America

Fault Lines' Josh Rushing reviews photographs of Madeline Leftridge who lived at a Golden Living Center in Southaven, Mississippi. She died at age 72 from complications due to Alzheimer’s, according to her daughters Carmen Belton and Lisa Perkins. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America

A photograph of Madeline Leftridge during the time that she was a resident at a Golden Living Center in Southaven, Mississippi. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America

From the episode, residents practice playing their harmonicas at Epworth Villa Retirement Community just outside of Oklahoma City. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America

From the episode, a picture of Pat Manning and his wife Nora taken a few years before he suffered a stroke and became a resident at Amara nursing home for care and rehabilitation. Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America

Pat Manning at his home after leaving Amara nursing home facility. He passed away a few weeks later of sepsis due to infection.
 Photo Credit: Al Jazeera America