No Place to Grow Old Panel Discussion - Iowa City, IA - November 6, 2025

No Place to Grow Old is a powerful and intimate documentary film that explores aging, resilience, and belonging in a rapidly changing world. The film follows older individuals confronting displacement, isolation, and the search for dignity in places that no longer feel like home, blending documentary realism with poetic storytelling to reveal lives too often overlooked.

This program is a community panel discussion that followed a screening of the film.

Across the United States, American adults are aging into homelessness at unprecedented rates. Older adults (55+) are now the fastest-growing population entering homelessness nationwide, with numbers projected to triple by 2030. The film shines a light on this escalating crisis through deeply personal stories, exposing the human cost behind the statistics.

Visually striking and emotionally resonant, No Place to Grow Old asks urgent questions about community, identity, and belonging in the twilight of life. With compassion and unflinching honesty, it challenges audiences to reconsider how society treats its elders and how each of us envisions our own path to aging.

For more information about the film, visit https://noplacetogrowold.com.

The screening event was sponsored by the Office of Human Rights, Iowa City Housing Authority, Iowa City Senior Center, and Iowa Legal Aid.