Coming Soon: Life and Death in Assisted Living

July 23, 2013, 10:25 a.m. EDT

Months after Joan Boice,
a former schoolteacher,
checked into Emerald Hills assisted living facility, she was dead.

In the growing, multibillion dollar assisted living industry, is the push for profits trumping quality care? Check back here Monday, July 29 for Joan's story and the first installment of our latest investigation with FRONTLINE.

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Months after Joan Boice, a former schoolteacher, checked into Emerald Hills assisted living facility, she was dead.