Video Catalog

• Bringing Hospice Home This video demonstrates how hospice care can be integrated into a patient's home care. Spending the last few days or weeks of an illness with family & friends in a familiar setting is an ideal application of the hospice philosophy.

• The DNR Dilemma Part I dramatizes the anxieties physicians face in talking with terminally ill patients about resuscitation options; Part II offers personal commentary by noted health professionals who work daily with dying patients.

• Facing Alzheimer's Legal and Financial Considerations: For those suffering from Alzheimer's, advance planning is the best way to offset the loss of control in their lives. This video shows how a mother, daughter and son work together to organize and care for the mother as her disability progresses. Legal and financial issues are discussed and guidelines provided.
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• Fools' Dance This video is a parody of life in a contemporary American convalescent home where a patient with a penchant for Shakespeare reaffirms the joy of living despite the presence of old age and death.

• A Friend of the Family This unique video teaches physicians communication techniques for discussing difficult subjects. The three vignettes presented will help physicians find the right words to say and the right way to say them, and help ease the way for future interactions.

• The Heart Has No Wrinkles This video is intended as a trigger for discussion of a very sensitive subject -- aging and sexuality. A dramatic scenario unfolds in a retirement home when two residents -- May and Derek become romantically involved.
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• The Heart of the New Age Hospice This video examines the full spectrum of hospice services-home care, inpatient care, bereavement - and offers a model for other hospices to follow in caring for the terminally ill patients.

• Lifeline: Preventing Elder Abuse This video not only shows what elder abuse is, but explains the obligation we all have to report it. Betty White hosts this timely video which covers many aspects of elder abuse -- recognition, reporting and prevention.

• Living Choices This video is designed to encourage everyone to recognize the importance of completing health care treatment directives and durable powers of attorney to insure that their wishes will be carried out if they should become unable to make decisions for themselves. It explains the provisions of the Patient Self Determination Act and clears up common misconceptions about advance directives.
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• No Heroic Measures This program is intended to stimulate discussion among health professionals about the legal/ethical issues involved in removal of a feeding tube from an elderly, mentally incompetent patient. It explores the issue of substituted judgement since the request is made by a relative.

• The Right to Die A man with ALS who has carefully arranged his legal affairs to keep from being put on life support finds himself ventilator dependent after an auto accident. His request for his physician to remove his ventilator is denied and the case is brought before the hospital ethics committee.