Synopsis

"Let us strengthen societal support for care, rather than burdening nursing homes with stricter oversight and painting them as institutions of sorrow and misery," writes Thed van Kempen, director of the Weidesteyn nursing home in Hoogeveen, to State Secretary Ross of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. He penning this letter after years of streamlining, yet also scaling back, care within his facility. Tegenlicht follows the courageous efforts of a mayor during wartime to keep his nursing