Video Catalog

• AIDS: A Family Experience The video documents the crisis and triumph of one family's struggle with the fact that a loved one is dying of AIDS. The members speak candidly and unselfconsciously about their ambivalent feelings and their words serve as a model for family response to this terrible disease.

• Born Dying This program examines the ethical issues surrounding the birth of a multiply handicapped baby. A number of concerned individuals who have an interest in the parents' decision to treat or not to treat offer them advice.
  
  
• 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.

• Eskimo Ice Cream Shoes This video is a short drama about prolonged grieving and how to overcome it. A year after the sudden death of her husband, Theresa is still depressed and consumed with grief and is suppressing painful thoughts and feelings with alcohol. At the suggestion of a friend, she takes a little trip and meets a very unusual ice cream vendor in a park who gives her the symbolic key to unlock her pent-up feeling and get on with her life: eskimo ice cream shoes.

• Facing Alzheimer's 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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• Facing Death This practical two-part video set will guide and comfort all who view it whether you are a caregiver, a patient, or a member of the family.

• 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.

• 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 terminally ill patients.

• It's Not Easy A successful young Ugandan executive, well-known for his womanizing, discovers he is carrying the AIDS virus when his newborn son and wife are diagnosed. It's not easy for him to tell friends and his employer, but with their help he finds the strength to accept his infection and provide an example to others.

• 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.
  
  
• Living with AIDS The video demystifies AIDS by personalizing the disease and its impact in an honest, nonthreatening manner and encourages greater sensitivity to people with AIDS.

• Lucy's Room A poignant story of a young couple struggling to regain a normal life after the sudden death of their first baby. They receive unexpected help in the process from a stranger--a young, pregnant, indigent woman whom they befriend.

• Mending Hearts Narrated by Christopher Reeve, this video offers a compassionate, intelligent response to the AIDS epidemic. It follows several people whose experience with AIDS has caused them to make changes in the quality of their lives.
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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.

• Shades of Gray The film allows the viewer to enter, at least briefly, the struggle and the emotion of one man as he attempts to make some sense of his life and relationships as they are altered by the cancer experience.

• 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 venitlator 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.

• To Touch a Grieving Heart As a grief counselor Kathleen Braza has walked the journey of grief with many bereaved people. Her sensitive and practical insights are captured in this enlightening and highly-acclaimed program, helping each of us to understand the process of grief and how we can touch grieving hearts in healthy ways.