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This is the dream of 90% of elderly people: to grow old at home, in a familiar place, surrounded by their furniture, their memories... While there is a shortage of places in nursing homes for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) and their reception conditions sometimes cause scandal, nearly 1.4 million dependent seniors live at home. Half of them benefit from public aid: each year, 5 billion euros are spent on personal assistance to keep elderly people at home. But the old-age budgets of many departments are being revised downwards and the French are far from being equal in terms of assistance: it is better to grow old in Loire-Atlantique or Morbihan than in the Pyrénées-Orientales or Corrèze... For their part, home help associations have the greatest difficulty in ensuring quality care for elderly people and bankruptcies are increasing. Particularly in rural areas and regions in difficulty. Faced with growing demand, home care for the elderly is becoming a market that is whetting the appetites of private operators, sometimes unscrupulous ones. At the risk of deplorable working conditions for home helps, untrained staff and, ultimately, elderly people who are mistreated, neglected or forgotten. Céline Chassé conducted the investigation from Amiens to Le Mans, from Lyon to Longwy, and from Saint-Etienne to Metz, in Brittany and the Paris region. Director: Céline Chassé