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A Mother Never Gives Up Hope: Older Mothers and Abusive Adult Sons
Item# 43871
© 2010
42 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-934-9
Verbal attacks, death threats, duping them into signing away property, monitoring phone calls so other family members never find out what’s going on… In this program, four women discuss the abuse they...
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A Good Death: Case Studies in End-of-Life Care
Item# 43583
© 2010
45 Min.
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DVD ISBN: 978-1-61733-546-4
At the Sacred Heart Palliative Care Centre in Sydney, Australia, a small group of health care professionals are devoting their careers to death. Sacred Heart's patients have all been diagnosed with a...
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A Breath of Hope
Item# 50570
© 2009
42 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-247-4
When a loved one has a serious illness, the emotional fallout can be harder for the family to bear than for the actual patient. This poignant documentary follows 27-year-old Rachel as she and her husb...
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The Last Journey
Item# 50124
© 2009
48 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-831-8
If we’re lucky, our parents live long enough to entrust us with protecting and caring for them. But the adult caregiver doesn’t always feel so lucky—the burdens of decision making, of remaining involv...
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Into the Other Lane: Driving and Dementia
Item# 43872
© 2009
56 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61733-935-6
Many people report that being told they could no longer drive was even more difficult than receiving their diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. This two-section program examines the numerous issues faced by de...
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Adapting to Change
Item# 43595
© 2009
30 Min.
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Change must be faced one way or the other-but how realistic is it to expect seniors to simply go with the flow? This program studies the ways in which aging and adaptation can be synonymous, or at lea...
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Aging and Fear
Item# 43597
© 2009
30 Min.
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Most people don't want to talk about it-"it" being all those things that come with aging, such as long-term care issues, monetary concerns, and of course, dying. None of these are easy topics to bring...
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Aging and the Sexes
Item# 43599
© 2009
30 Min.
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Who faces the sunset years better-men or women? This panel-driven program takes on the issue. Aging specialist Dr. Robert Kane points out that the 55-plus years are tough for everyone. Not only are th...
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The Aging Brain
Item# 43596
© 2009
30 Min.
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It comes with the territory-as we age, our brains just aren't as adept. We start forgetting names, or we blank out on something we were just about to say. In this program, Harvard-trained neurobiologi...
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The Best of Life (Part 2)
Item# 43605
© 2009
30 Min.
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A groundbreaking foray into the emotional, psychological, and financial aspects of aging, the first season of the PBS series Life (Part 2) was filled with inspiring and poignant moments. This program...
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