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.

• Choices: Coping with Breast Cancer This video details the personal experiences of a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent reconstructive surgery. It deals with the emotional and psychological aspects, what to expect before and after surgery, and the role of supportive partners and family.

• Controlling the Behavioral Side Effects of Chemotherapy This video examines conditioned behavioral disorders in chemotherapy patients and documents research of two clinical psychologists who have developed active and passive relaxation procedures to reduce the nausea, vomiting, and treatment-related phobias of these patients.

• 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.

• Feeling Good Again: Coping with Breast Cancer This video deals with some of the special problems women who have undergone surgery for breast cancer face in coming to terms with their changed appearance and follow-up chemotherapy. Five women who have successfully recovered talk about their fears and needs.

• 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 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.
  
  

• Preventing Skin Cancer If you think that a tan symbolizes good health, you need to become aware of some important facts about the negative effects of exposing your skin to ultraviolet rays. Learn about the various kinds of skin cancer and see how you can protect yourself from a deadly disease.
  
  

• Relaxation Procedures in Cancer Treatment Passive relaxation tape involves focusing patients' attention on the sensations in various muscle groups and shifting attention to tranquil scenes to maintain the relaxed state. Active Relaxation tape involves tensing and relaxing several major muscle groups, beginning with the feet and progressing up through the entire body.

• The Survivor Symphony Pete, Freddi, and Karen describe first hand all of the fears and frustrations that cancer brings into your life, along with joy and insight that come with surviving.