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A Child's Grief. Aquarius Productions. VHS, 45 minutes, Aquarius Productions, $195.00. Children cope with loss in ways all their own, and in order to help them face their challenges, we need insight into their feelings. This video provides just such insight. We hear their stories, feel their pain, and share their tears - along with their laughter - as we witness their valiant attempts to come to terms with their losses. Through the enchanting use of animation, some of the children's dramatic art therapy comes to life, further illustrating the struggle that wages inside children during the grieving process.
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 01770, United States
Tel: 508-651-2963
Pediatric Grief and Bereavement
A Conspiracy of Silence: Helping the Patient and Family Live with Terminal Illness. VHS, 20 minutes, Video Press, $300.00.
Effective care for terminally ill patients and their families involves education about death and dying. Health care workers often find loving, caring families unable to share their fears, worries and strengths. A "conspiracy of silence" is developed to protect the patient. Through open communication, the health care professional can help patients and families replace fear and distress with spiritual and emotional strength to give life's final stage a sense of peace and meaning.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
100 Penn Street, Suite 133
Baltimore, MD 21201-1082, United States
Tel: 800/328-7450
A Cradle Song: The Families of SIDS. Dennis Spalsbury/Lawrence Productions, Inc. VHS, 29 minutes, Fanlight Productions, $195.00.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome claims the lives of over 300,000 infants a year worldwide. In this program, SIDS parents share the pain and anger which have dominated their lives, but they also offer hope to others coping with grief.
ISBN 1-57295-063-3
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
A Death of One's Own. VHS, 90 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $129.00.
Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of he hardest decisions, including how to pay for care, what constitutes humane treatment, and how to balance dying and dignity.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053, United States
Tel: 800/257-5126
A Different Kind of Care. VHS, 24 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $129.00.
In this program, Bill Moyers presents the important strides being made in the area of palliative care at pioneering institutions such as new York's Mt. Sinai Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These advances are bringing peace to those who fear that they will be a burden to loved ones, will suffer needlessly, or will be abandoned in their hour of greatest need.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053, United States
Tel: 800/257-5126
A Fate Worse Than Death? Dealing With Artificial Life Supports. By Lori Hope & King Broadcasting Company. VHS, 50 Minutes, Distributed by Fanlight Productions (fanlight@tiac.net), $145.00.
This documentary examines the legal, ethical, and financial issues related to making treatment decisions at the end of life. ISBN 1-57295-076-5.
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA
Tel: (800) 937-4113
A Heart Transplant Program - 28 min.
This hypothetical case explores the ethical dimensions of deciding to start a new heart transplant program, but it also provides a framework for thinking about other issues involving allocation of resources, competition in health care, and responsibility to community.
4196 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02131
Tel: 800/937-4113
A Time to Change. VHS, 90 minutes, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, $129.00.
Whether they want to or not, four out of five Americans will likely die in hospitals or nursing homes, and the care they get will depend on both who is providing it and who is footing the bill. In this program, Bill Moyers introduces crusading medical professionals-including members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Alabama-who have dedicated themselves to improving end-of-life care by changing America's overburdened health system.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
A Time To Die: Who Decides?. VHS, 33 min., Terra Nova Films, $285.00.
Who decides how and when a terminally ill patient should be allowed to die? This deeply moving film focuses on three patients - a nine month old boy with a brain tumor, a young woman with Hodgkin's disease, and elderly woman with Alzheimer's Disease - and their families. The film raises important questions and stimulates discussion from ethical and legal points of view.
You can also rent this video for $55.00.
9848 S. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643
Tel: 800/779-8491
Activities of Daily Living after Left Brain Stroke. VHS, 20 minutes, Aspen Publishers, 1996, $166.00.
The second of a two-tape/two-guidebook series designed to assist the professional in educating family caregivers of those who have had a stroke. This component identifies the deficits of those who have had a left brain stroke, and presents essential day-to-day techniques for improving a stroke survivor's ability to perform activities of daily living.
P.O. Box 990
Frederick, MD 21705-9727, United States
Tel: 800/638-8437
Advance Directives: Assisting Patients wtih End-of-Life Decisions. VHS, 229, Insight Media, 1996, $229.00.
Societies differ sharply in how they regard health care near the end of life. This video looks at these differences in societies. Life Support will give you a fascinating and first hand look at how societal and cultural mores shape the approach to health care at life's end.
2162 Broadway
New York, NY 10024-6620, United States
Tel: 212/721-6316
Advance Directives: CPR in Nursing Homes. DVD, 19 min., Video Press, $300.00.
In this program, a physician, a nursing home resident and the resident's daughter discuss CPR. In answering posed questions, the physician responds to their emotional concerns as well as to their need for information.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
100 Penn Street, Suite 133
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tel: 800/328-7450
AIDS: The Heart of the Matter. VHS, 31 minutes, Aquarius Productions, Inc., 2000, $195.00.
This is a powerful program that profiles one man's five-year battle with AIDS - from his HIV diagnosis to his memorial service. Clinton Eagle candidly discusses his physical and emotional journey through the latter stages of his fight with AIDS. Educating and unforgettable, AIDS: The Heart of the Matter puts a face on this disease.
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
Alternative Medicine. VHS, 29 minutes, Films for the Humanities, 1995, $129.00.
Alternative, or complementary, health systems are gradually being integrated into American culture and can now be found in many American physicians' offices. This program provides an overview of Chinese and Indian medicine, homeopathy, herbalism, naturopathy, osteopathy, massage, and chiropractic. The program observes patients who are using one or more of these therapies in their health care, and speaks with several experts including Andrew Weill, a Harvard-trained physician and author of numerous books on integrative health; Dr. Christiane Northrup, an obstetrician/gynecologist and proponent of alternative medicine; Dr. Fredi Kronenberg, director of an alternative medical center at Columbia University, and Nancy Lonsdorf, a physician who practices both Western and the Indian system of Ayuveda in her practice.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton,, NJ 08543-5126, United States
Tel: 800/257-5126
 Analyzing Ethical Challenges. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
To order: http://www.ippcweb.org/module3.asp
Angels Don't Have Headlights. VHS, 25 minutes, Filmakers Library, $150.00.
Psychiatrist Dr. Edward Mason produced this sensitive film on bereavement. It shows four children aged three to eleven, who lost a family member through death. Skillfully interviewed by a pediatrician or a psychologist, the children reveal their fantasies, their fears and their grief. This video shows how the child's conception of death and the child's grieving process differ from those of an adult, and in fact, vary considerably with each developmental stage. It presents a model for clinician-child-family interaction where the professional has the opportunity to foster the emotional health of the young person.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Answered Prayers? Investigating the Healing Power of Prayer. VHS, 33 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1996, $129.00.
Can prayer account for astonishing recoveries that exceed medical expectations? In this video, doctors and people outside the medical profession share their understanding of prayer as a complementary therapy and the different approaches to using it. Discussed also is the difference between curing and healing, and whether or not a patient's death is a failure of prayer. People of different faiths agree that prayers for the ill, whether done as part of a group or alone, vocally or silently, can help provide meaning, hope, and possibly even health for those in need of healing. BYF8596
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08545, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
At A Loss For Words. DVD, 30 minutes, Aquarius Productions, Inc., $99.00.
How to help those you care for after a miscarriage, stillbirth or newborn death - Does anyone care? Of course we do, but few of us know how to show it. At a Loss for Words teaches spouses, family members, friends, neighbors, and early caregivers - clergy, doctors, nurses, and counselors - how to help and to say and do
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770
Tel: 508/651-2963
At Death's Door. VHS, 28 minutes, Paraclete Press, $39.95.
This video resource for grief focuses on help for those facing the terminal illness of a loved one.
P.O. Box 1568
Orleans, MA 02653
Tel: 800/451-5006
Bereaved Parents. VHS, 28 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1988, $89.95.
This specially adapted Phil Donahue program looks at the overwhelming sense of loss and even guilt that parents experience at the death of a child. The program suggests that parents can survive their bereavement by sharing their grief with others, by thinking and speaking about the lost child, and, especially, by recalling happy memories of him or her. Care must be taken to help other children in the family come to terms with their loss, and the program suggests that counseling is often necessary to accomplish this. BKU1736
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, WI 08545-2053, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
Cancer: A Personal Journey, Notes from the Edge. Ruth Yorkin Drazen. VHS, 120 minutes, Glaxo Wellcom, 1997.
An intimate narrative of the last two years in the life of a 29-year-old physician diagnosed with cancer. Through the legacy of his Diary, which he began the day after he was given this diagnosis, he chronicles the only known physician's self-record of a catastrophic illness through the private world of his Diary.The viewer experiences Dr. Peter Morgan through interview films during his illness as well as his Diary. We observe the ways in which his family and his colleagues enhanced the quality of living in his dying. His suffering and vulnerability are transcended as he struggles to capture the meaning of each moment in his finite life.
Tel: 800/824-2896
Care Beyond Cure: Hospice Helping Physicians Treat the Terminally Ill - 2nd Edition. Annenberg Center/NHO. VHS, 30 minutes, National Hospice Organization, 2001, $15.95.
One of the big challenges in gaining greater acceptance for hospice is to change attitudes and improve awareness among physicians. This outstanding video clinic takes a giant step toward that goal. It straightforwardly addresses physicians' concerns and questions about hospice. Interview with patients and physicians help bring into focus issues like how to cope with pressures to cure, the physician's role in a care team, discussing hospice with patients, reimbursement concerns, nurse-physician interaction, and more.
NHO Store
200 State Road
South Deerfield, MA 01373, United States
Tel: 800/646-6460
Caring at the End of Life. Ben Achtenberg with Christine Mitchell, RN, FAAN. VHS, 45 Minutes, Fanlight Productions, Inc., $245.00.
This moving film focuses on the key roles of nursing staff in patient care and communication. It profiles six severely ill patients who agreed to be a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's SUPPORT Study on end-of-life care and decision making.
Tel: 800-937-4113
Caring for the Terminally Ill. VHS, 19 minutes, Films for the Humanities and Science, $89.95.
This program emphasizes that the goal of care for the terminally ill is not to conquer the patient's disease but to provide support and enhance what time remains. The program shows the role of the spouse, visiting nurses, and hospice personnel in caring for patients; a social worker explains how terminally ill patients often feel abandoned by family members because of emotional and financial stress.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Comfort Measure at the End of Life. VHS, 20 minutes, Video Press, 1993, $300.00.
Terminally ill patients who elect not to pursue curative treatment deserve the best possible care. Health care providers must know how to provide pain control and symptom management for physical comfort. They must also be able to discuss the physiological ramifications and basic ethical principles of withholding artificial nutrition and hydration. Finally, it is essential, whenever possible, to involve the family in supporting and implementing decisions.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
100 Penn Street, Suite 133
Baltimore, MD 21201-1082, United States
Tel: 800/328-7450
Common Heroes: Choices in Hospice Care. Robert Ruvkun. VHS, 30 Minutes, Fanlight Productions, $195.00.
This revealing video follows the nurses, physicians, social workers and clergy who make up the hospice team. It demonstrates the ways they collaborate to help families maximize each patient's quality of life during the end stages of their illness, while also providing family support and grief counseling. Also shown is an innovative program at the University of California, San Diego, where all medical students undergo a hospice rotation.
Tel: 800-937-4113
Controlling Pain. VHS, 23 minutes, Films for the Humanities, 1990, $89.95.
Pain accompanies us from birth to death. How and why does it happen? This program describes the complex process of pain, which originates either from specialized receivers located on the skin or from the brain. It also describes ongoing research to find ways to alleviate pain, including pain-killing chemicals and new electric stimulation techniques. APW5531
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton,, NJ 08543-2053, United States
Tel: 800/257-5126
Dax's Case: Who Should Decide?. Partnership for Caring. VHS, 58 minutes, Partnership for Caring, 1985, $89.95.
This gripping documentary struggles with a profoundly troubling bioethical problem. Under what circumstances does a severely injured patient have the right to refuse treatment? This film is unique because it spans a ten-year period. This is an outstanding resource to provide a debate about the complex issues that occur in decision making. Useful for working with students in ethics, medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy and others that struggle with these difficult questions. The video is designed to be used in two parts.
1035 30th Street NW
Washington, DC 20007, United States
Tel: 800/989-9455
Death: A Love Story. VHS, 63 minutes, University of California Ext. Center for Media & Independent Lng., $175.00.
With painstaking objectivity and deeply felt emotion, this intimate and innovative documentary shows us that life's greatest gifts can sometimes be found in the seeds of death. This profound film examines the gifts that death offers when we are able to put our fears, confusion, and denial aside and simply sit and listen to our loved ones as the pass.
2000 Center Street
4th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel: 510/642-0460
Death: An Overview. VHS, 50 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1997, $149.00.
This step-by-step program takes the myth and mystery out of the process of dying and death itself, and presents both as biological and clinical realities. An 82-year-old terminally ill patient and those who provide palliative care witness the death process. Cameras also venture behind the closed doors of a mortuary to shed light on the scientific and commercial aspects of death, including body preparation, embalming, and cremation. BKU7677
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton,, NJ 08545-2053, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
Death: What Does It Mean to Die?. VHS, 52 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $129.00.
Is death a form of transition to a higher plane, mere physical dissolution, or something else altogether? This program delves into the ways in which science and religion have attempted to come to terms with humankind's ultimate enigma. Topics under consideration include mortality, mourning, eternity, and life itself, which most people hope to prolong at any cost.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Defining Life. VHS, 26 minutes, Filmakers Library, $295.00.
What does one do when a terminally ill loved one asks for help in committing suicide? One of the focuses of this film is on the case of Bernard Harper, charged with murder for abetting his terminally ill wife's suicide. After an emotional trial, Mr. Harper was found innocent. Another focus is the case of Luane who was left in a vegetative state after a car accident in 1954. Her family had never considered "letting her die." After sixteen years, Luane recovered enough to have her feeding tubes removed and to be able to sit in a wheelchair. Despite her severe physical limitations, she lives each day fully. A third focus is on John, an AIDS victim and his fight for the right to have a "good death." Also featured in the film is Dr. Jack Kevorkian speaking about his views on euthanasia.
124 E 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Discussing Advance Directives: A Practical Guide. VHS, 25 minutes, Insight Media, $199.00.
This video teaches how to help patients make important decisions about dying. Medical professionals present a practical method for facilitating doctor/patient discussions about such advance directives as health-care proxies and living wills. NS1313
2162 Broadway
New York, NY 10024-6620, United States
Tel: 212/721-6316
Dreams & Dilemmas. VHS, 58 minutes, Fanlight Productions, Inc., 1998, $245.00.
Advances in neonatal medicine have dramatically improved the survival chances of premature infants, yet survival can come at a high cost. Many such infants experience severe and often life-threatening health problems, and their parents and caregivers may confront enormously difficult and troubling decisions. This compelling documentary follows one couple and their premature twin sons over the course of six months in the neonatal intensive Care unit. Without narration or preaching, it allows viewers to experience and share in the dilemmas confronted by parents and by their nurses, physicians, social worker and hospital chaplain. ISBN 1-57295-251-2
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130, United States
Tel: 800/937-4113
Dying Wish. VHS, 52 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1989, $89.95.
This hard-hitting program looks at some difficult issues: Whether to keep a brain-dead patient's heart beating with machines or take extraordinary measures to resuscitate a seriously ill patient? Whether health professionals can assist death, or fail to prevent it? What about the cost of keeping incurable patients alive while others die because they lack access to the procedures that would cure them? BKU2085
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08545-2053, United States
Tel: 800/275-5126
Engaging with Children and Families. The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care
To order: http://www.ippcweb.org/module1.asp
End Notes A Model for Palliative Care. VHS, 51 minutes, Filmakers Library, $295.00.
Under the leadership of Balfour Mount, MD, pioneer in the field of palliative care, the Royal Victoria Hospital engages the entire staff in the complex task of meeting the physical as well as emotional needs of its patients. We get to know the caregivers and how they are affected by their work with the dying. Creating a sense of normalcy, the staff brings pleasures from the outside world in. Musicians, pets, and celebrations enrich daily life, and the warm atmosphere allows family members and friends to interact naturally with their loved ones.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Ethics and Economics: The Rising Cost of Health Care. VHS, 30 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $89.95.
Government agencies and professionals who deal with damage claims are literally trying to determine the dollars-and-cents worth of human life. How do we decide what is an efficient annual cost for a nursing home? Or the cost for a new liver? And who is going to pay? Dr. Willard Gaylin is a practicing psychiatrist and president of the Hastings Center, an institute devoted to studying the relationships between biology and ethics. In this program with Bill Moyers, Gaylin explores the growing conflict between the survival of communities and the survival of the individual.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Family Caregivers. VHS, 28 minutes, Aquarius Productions, Inc., 1996, $149.00.
Caring for a seriously ill family member can be both rewarding and incredibly stressful. This film explores the roles the family caregivers play, and points out ways that professionals can provide the most effective support. Whether dealing with Alzheimer's, Down Syndrome, or Multiple Sclerosis, spouses and parents have risen to the demands of becoming the support for their families. We learn how we can offer our support to these extraordinary people.
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
Final Rest. VHS, Filmakers Library, Inc., $295.00.
This unusual film takes us to the Beecher Funeral Home in upstate NY, where Dick Hazzard, his son, and their staff lead us step by step through the process of arranging for one person's final rest. By juxtaposing the mundane business details if funeral preparations with the unfathomable nature of death, the film strikes an anxious chord in even the staunchest among us. It challenges us to question our fears in contemplating death from close-up, while it implicitly raises questions on our attitudes towards death.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Full Circle. VHS, 29 minutes, Terra Nova Films, $165.00.
A documentary about a 50-year-old daughter who brings her terminally ill, 90-year-old mother into her home so that she can care for her in the last months of her life. Told by the daughter and filmed by her husband, the mother's life and death are dealt with compassionately and realistically. The video raises important questions about personal autonomy, as well as what constitutes a "good death." This film leaves the viewer with a better understanding of the potential for a deeper relationship between caregivers and their loved ones.
C/O James Vanden Bosch
9848 S. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643
Tel: 800/779-8491
Giving Bad News: Insights for Medical Practioners. VHS, 30 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $89.95.
The way a professional medical staff delivers test or examination results has a huge impact on how a patient or a patient's family copes with them. What happens, then, if news of a serious condition is delivered over the phone? In a letter? Or even via an answering machine? Drawing on input from actual patients and a variety of healthcare and counseling professional, this program identifies why such information is sometimes given in an impersonal or detached manner; suggests approaches to compassionate news delivery; and acknowledges that even under the best of circumstances, giving bad news is hard for all concerned.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08543-2053
Tel: 800/257-5126
Grief in America. Bert Atkinson. VHS, 55 minutes, Fanlight Productions, 1997, $245.00.
This video takes an honest and comprehensive look at how our culture deals with loss in all its forms. Across the widest possible range of ages, ethnic and religious identifications, and types of loss, it explores how people in our society cope with death and bereavement. Narrated by Anthony Edwards, Grief in America grew out of filmmaker Bert Atkinson's won search for healing after a personal loss. In creating the film, he interviews a number of nationally recognized authorities on the grieving process who examine some common myths about grieving, the importance of social supports, the impact of ethnic traditions regarding grief, and the social costs of unresolved grieving. Through the subjects' narratives, viewers glimpse multiple experiences of loss, both from anticipated causes (progressive disease) as well as unexpected causes including heart attack, murder and suicide. DD-245
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130
Tel: 800/937-4113
Grieving and Healing. VHS, 67 minutes, Aquarius Productions, Inc., 1995, $125.00.
In this inspiring film, we witness the intimate interchanges between a mother, who lost her two-year-old son to cancer, and four professionals in the field of bereavement. This video covers universal bereavement issues including children, spouse, sibling and parental loss, and the impact that grief and loss have on relationships.
5 Powerhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
Grown-Up Tears: Adults Grieving the Death of a Parent. VHS, Aquarius Productions, Inc., 1997, $225.00.
Losing a parent can be one of the most difficult and painful times in our lives, regardless of how old we are. Through the eyes and experiences of seven individuals and three professionals, Grown-Up Tears explores how adults feel about-and cope with-the loss of a parent. The participants discuss the important transformation they experienced in their relationships with their family and friends and the new definition of themselves that developed during the grieving and healing process. This unique video provides a powerful educational tool for those who work in hospice, medical or nursing schools, the clergy, bereavement counseling, funeral homes, hospitals and mental health centers. Divided into five segments, the video is easy to present in part or as a whole for training sessions, bereavement groups, workshops, and classroom settings: 1) Letting Go of Love. Our Stories; 2) Relationships. Family and Friends; 3) Growing. On Your Own; 4) The Open Circle; 5) Letters from Home.
5 Powerhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 01770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
Healing and Dying: An Interview with Stephen Levine. VHS, 90, Aquarius Productions, 1997, $90.00.
Wise and transformational, Stephen Levine speaks clearly and simply to the deepest truths within us in a way that releases understanding into the peaceful wisdom of us all. Mr. Levine is a Buddhist, healer, and author who is clearly one of today's most inspiring teachers on death, dying, and healing.
5 Powderhouse Lane
P.O. Box 1159
Sherborn, MA 02770, United States
Tel: 508/651-2963
Healing and the Mind. VHS, 395, Insight Media, 1993, $395.00.
Bill Moyers explores alternative therapies and the clinical evidence supporting them. Acupuncture, massage, herbal techniques, biofeedback, meditation, and group therapy are considered. Moyers examines the role of emotions in health and how hospitals in America are responding to evidence that compassion makes patients feel better. NS1199
2162 Broadway
New York,, NY 10024-6620, United States
Tel: 212/721-6316
Hell, Heaven and Resurrection. DVD, 30 minutes, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, $89.95.
What lies at the end of life's journey? Heaven and the eventual resurrection of the body? Eternal rebirth? Nirvana? This program examines the teachings of the world's major faiths about death and the rites they use to shepherd the soul to its next state of being. Each religion has its own rich traditions and funeral ceremonies, but within them there is one shared belief: death is not the end; it is only another beginning.
P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 09543-2053
Tel: 212/808-4980
Hello in There: Understanding the Success of Person-Centered Care. Educational Centre for Aging & Health, McMaster University. VHS, 19 minutes, Fanlight Products, 1983, $195.00.
Working patients whose personalities are clouded by illness or by the again process can be extremely challenging. Thumping video captures the essence of "person-centered care," a form of nursing practice that emphasizes the stresses and rewards of relating to patients as whole people, with histories and values that go beyond their current medical needs. Including interviews with articulate and throughout nurses, patients and families, wand with footage of excellent nurse-patient interactions, this video is a must see for all nurses and nursing students. ISBN 1-57295-240-7
47 Halifax Street
Boston, MA 02130
Tel: 800/937-4113
How to Say Good-Bye 3-Tape Series. VHS, 24 minutes, Filmakers, Library Inc., $400.00.
Caring for older individuals, family, friends, caregivers need to realize the distance to the end is unpredictable, and must prepare to accept the process of dying.
Being an Adult Child - 24 minutes
As people become involved with a parent in the final stage of life, this may be a first-time experience with death. Although it is extremely difficult to say good-bye to a family member, there are certain things which can be done to make this emotional time a positive time to share love.
Being a Professional Caregiver - 24 minutes
Topics include: accepting death as the final stage of life; accepting families' decisions on treatment or treatment limitations; knowing how to talk to a person who is terminally ill; knowing how to facilitate conversation between the patient and patent's family; sharing family concerns with the health care team; minimizing family stress; dealing with emotional issues of saying good-bye; and finding support at work.
Saying Good-bye - 24 minutes
Dr. Wertheimer helps the family identify ways in which they can contribute to a good ending, helping them to learn to say good-bye.
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212/808-4980
Facing Death: Providing physical, emotional & spiritual comfort to loved ones
Director: Jess Doherty
Format: Color, Full length, Special Edition
Rated: NR
Studio: (studio name not provided)
Video Release Date: June 20, 1997
VHS Features:
NTSC format (US and Canada only.
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