Why is a 108-year-old resorting to GoFundMe to pay for home care? | Ross Barkan

The predicament of Juliet Bernstein is just one more example of how America's byzantine healthcare system fails so many

A 108-year-old woman named Juliet Bernstein recently launched a GoFundMe to pay for around-the-clock home care that she could otherwise not afford. A retired schoolteacher who is physically frail but mentally sharp, Bernstein, who was born before the first world war, hopes to remain in the modest Massachusetts home where she retired, receiving help to cook, clean and bathe.

I saw it was being done for someone whose child was very sick," Bernstein, a longtime civic activist, told the Boston Globe. So I said, I'm not going to go to a nursing home. I'm remaining here.'"