This video examines caregiving in a warm and caring manner chronicling the increase in caregiving which results from advances in medical technology. Individuals survive for years with diseases and chronic conditions that would have resulted in death only a few years earlier. The benefits of medical advances have created a new population of persons in need of care as well as a new population of caregivers. Many, if not most of us, will be in both roles during our lifetime—caregiver and cared-for. Joe Mantegna hosts and narrates.
As Time Goes By
(Sexuality and Aging)
Fanlight Productions
1998
Video
23 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Practice
Expressing and receiving affection, companionship and love, are things that we all crave. Yet there is a common misconception that our needs for intimacy and romance fade as we grow older. This film actively challenges the cultural assumptions that along with age comes a disinterest in sex and intimacy. It reminds us that sexuality remains a part of our lives until the very end.
The men and women, couples and singles profiled in this documentary openly share their experiences with love, romance and growing old. Their discussion of the place of sexuality in their lives is in vivid counterpoint to society's perceptions of sex among the Elderly. As Time Goes By shows us a community of vital, social people who want what most of us want: love and affection, whether it takes the form of hand-holding, cuddling, or intercourse. Perhaps the way these seniors see themselves will change the way we see them and, eventually, how we see ourselves.
Betting on Older Adults: A Problem Gambling Prevention Clinical manual for Service Providers
Lemay, A., Bakich, E., and Fontaine, A.
Sault Area Hospital, St. Joseph’s Care Group
Centretown Community Health Centre
2006
Manual with DVD
DVD Length 16 minutes
Manual 45 pages
Product is Canadian
DVD is for older adults themselves.
Manual contains screening tools and a harm reduction model.
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Big Mama
Producer/Director: Tracy Seretean
California Newsreel
2000
Video
40 minutes
HBSE
Practice
Policy
Big Mama follows 18 months in the lives of Viola Dees, an African American grandmother, and Walter, her grandson, as she tries to raise him alone in South Central Los Angeles. Dees has taken care of Walter since the age of four, when his father (Viola's son) died. Walter appears in the documentary as bright and sweetly loving to his grandmother, but also profoundly troubled, affected by his mother's prenatal drug intake. In the documentary, Walter is nine, and Dees is turning 90.
The film focuses on the continuous battle against age discrimination faced by Dees and many like her. While contending with her own declining health and a bureaucratic and legal system that continually threatens to force them apart, Dees fights the misconception that age supersedes one's ability to love and care for a child.
Winner of the 73rd Documentary Short Subject Academy Award.
Family Lost, Family Found
From
Prime Time Live
ABC News
Executive Editor: David Sloan
Reporter: Cynthia McFadden
May 26, 2005
Video
40 minutes
HBSE
Practice
Policy
They are a generation of children whose parents have essentially vanished, lost to drug abuse, incarceration, mental illness and other social problems. Filling the void for an estimated 4.5 million of these American kids are their grandparents, often forced into duty armed with few resources beyond their wisdom and devotion. In a powerful hour-long report, 'Primetime Live' explores the stories of four of these families living in Newark, New Jersey, a city that has one of the nation's highest concentrations of youth being reared by grandparents -- many in poverty and with little outside help. For nearly four years, 'Primetime' has followed these families' struggles. Cynthia McFadden talks with the children about their parents' absence, and speaks with the grandmothers about their remarkable efforts and why they think this troubling cycle of abandonment and broken lives continues.
For Better or for Worse: A Celebration of Enduring Relationships
Producer: David Collier
Co-Producer: Betsy Thompson
Distributed by:
Direct Cinema Limited
1993
Video
55 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Practice
This entertaining documentary is an honest look at five culturally diverse couples married for fifty years or longer. For Better or For Worse attempts to answer questions that focus on issues of long-term commitments. In candid interviews, each couple discusses their private lives, covering the good and bad times during their relationships. In addition to how they met, each couple openly discusses sensitive topics such as their devotion to each other, sex, Alzheimer's disease, life and death. Drawing on rich storehouses of wisdom, they share stories of their journeys that range from living room jam sessions, to a gay pride parade, to an off-Broadway gay theatre in New York, and the backwoods of northern California. Reflecting on the diversity and fullness of the American experience, their comments offer insight into what is one of the most rewarding undertakings in life, for better or for worse.
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First One Hundred Years
Producers: Camille O. Cosby, Judith R. James
Directed by Lynne Littman
Columbia Tristar Television Inc.
1999
Video
94 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
History
Research
Based on the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, which was later adapted into a Broadway play, Having Our Say tells the true story of the Delany Sisters, two African-American women who were fathered by a former slave, went on to attend college, and witnessed the slow but steady advance of civil rights in America before a reporter for The New York Times sat down with them to record their story. In the film version, 103-year-old Sadie (Diahann Carroll) is a polite and soft-spoken woman who deals cheerfully with the questions of journalist Amy Hill Hearth (Amy Madigan). Sadie's considerably more feisty 101-year-old sister (and housemate) Bessie (Ruby Dee) grumbles about "white people who ask you to explain the obvious to them," but soon adds her own stories as the Delanys discuss their quietly remarkable lives as career women and racial pioneers who not only survived Jim Crow laws, they outlived Jim Crow, as well. Produced for CBS Television, Having Our Say was first aired April 18, 1999. Incidentally, Bessie Delany died in 1995 at age 104, while Sadie, at 110, passed on in 1999, only a few months before this was first aired.
With a primary theme of elder abuse, this film follows Norman for seven years as he suffers repeated abuse from an adult son. He is unwilling to take legal action and chooses to return home even after a severe beating resulted in a broken hip, a stroke and a temporary nursing home stay. The household consists of Norman, his wife and two adult sons. The piece courageously exposes the circle of violence, denial and tragedy of abuse toward frail adults.
If These Walls Could Talk 2
HBO
2000
Video
30 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Policy/History
Death & Dying
Set in the early 1960s, the world of a retired school teacher, who had been living discreetly with her life partner for many years, unravels when the partner suddenly dies. The hospital denies her access as she is not “family.” Despite being “widowed” she has no protection under the law to maintain her home or assets. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Perkins.
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Legacy
Filmmaker: Tod Lending
Distributor: Docurama
1999
DVD
90 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Policy
Academy Award-nominated LEGACY is the unflinching chronicle of one family's triumphant journey out of poverty and despair. Touchingly narrated by Nickcole Collins, a teenage girl wise beyond her years, the film follows the Collins family over five years as they slowly pull themselves out of a haze of poverty, drug addiction, and violence that plagues their public housing project in Chicago.
Stereotype-busting and open-minded, LEGACY paints the American Dream in honest colors to rousing effect. Improbably, the senseless killing of 14-year-old Terrell, a straight-A student and role model for the neighborhood, spurs the family to seek a better life against impossible odds. Nickcole's mother, a high school dropout, moves in fits and starts to find a meaningful job. Aunt Wanda, mother of Terrell and longtime crack addict, enrolls herself in a drug treatment program. Nickcole catapults herself out of the inner-city trap to a college degree and a comfortable life. It's impossible not to cheer for these incredible real-life people as they cry and laugh, stumble and get back up again on their way to something better.
Living Longer . . . Aging Well
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
2000
Video
29 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Practice
Although many cultures venerate their elders, looking to them as living repositories of wisdom and experience, America, with its "forever young" self-image, does not. Lacking societal support, how are Americans supposed to age well—to grow older with grace and understanding—and make life’s final decades a meaningful experience? This program features the stories of exemplary individuals who, despite the inhospitable social climate, are growing older with courage and dignity. The video is similar to Living Longer . . . . Living Better. Focus is more on what seniors have to offer.
Living Longer . . . Living Better
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
2000
Video
29 minutes
HBSE
Diversity
Practice
Thanks to recent advances in medicine, longevity is on the rise. But will America’s youth-oriented society finally develop the maturity to respect its elders? And will the Medicare and Social Security infrastructures be able to meet the needs of the Baby Boomers? In this program, experts, including ethicist David Solmon, the directors of the Aging with Dignity Institute and of the Forever Learning Institute, and the author of Another Country . . . Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Elders, examine these and other pressing quality-of-life questions. Video is similar to Living Longer . . . . Aging Well. Focus is more on the impact of changing demographics on families, communities and the nation.
Man Alive: Aging and Saging
Producer: CBC
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
1998
Video
24 minutes
HBSE
Generalist
Man Alive Series Visits a weekend Elder Circle held at the Omega Institute in upstate New York led by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ram Dass. Participants explore cultural perceptions of aging, share experiences, and work on developing role models for healthy and graceful aging. Includes interviews with Dass, Schachte-Shalomi, and participants, and shows clips from gatherings in which discussion centers around the spiritual aspect of becoming an elder.
Old age and poverty have robbed Leonard and Sara Bass of everything but each other. They have $200 a month in income and $100 of that pays the rent for their cockroach infested room. Sara is no longer able to care for herself. Increasingly, Leonard cannot provide the care she needs, yes he does not want to be separated from her. Health and social service professionals intervene. Eventually Sara is placed in a nursing home while Leonard must live elsewhere.
Voices From the Field: Social Work with Older Adults
Director: Jean Schuldberg, EdD, LCSW
Produced by: Dept. of Academic Technologies, California State University, Chico
Distributed by: Gero Ed Initiative
2003
DVD
18 minutes
Intro-
duction for students or pro-
fessionals to the possibility of aging services
This innovative video provides the personal perspective from individuals who are providing services to older adults as well as consumers. The video provides footage from:
Four BSW students
Two MSW students
Four administrators
Five BSW practitioners
Nine MSW practitioners
One psychiatrist
Three social service workers who work with social workers
Eight consumers
When Gambling is No Longer Fun
Illinois Department on Aging
2006
VHS
14 minutes
HBSE, Addictions
Targeted toward older adults, the video discusses problem gambling, its potential consequences, and how to recognize if the older adult has developed a problem. The accounts of the recovering gamblers can be informative for students.
When We are Asked
APPEAL: AProgressive Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for the Care of African Americans at Life’s End
This DVD contains short videos segments of people (including professionals, patients, and family members) discussing experiences in palliative care, death and dying for African Americans. The segments are grouped topically to fit with the APPEAL curriculum (see the Power Point resources and training manual listed below). The DVD can easily be used in short segments to supplement or enhance a class. Modules include:
Comprehensive Patient Evaluation
Quality End-of-Life Care
Culturally Appropriate Communication
Pain Treatment & Racial Disparities
Patient-Centered Decision Making
Fundamentals of Hospice Care
Spirituality in the End-of-Life Care
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APPEAL: AProgressive Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for the Care of African Americans at Life’s End
Participant’s Manual
Duke Institute o Care at the End of Life
2006
Power Point Presentations and PDFs of slides and accompanying manual
About 300 slides divided into curriculum modules
Power Point materials for an interdisciplinary training in caring for African Americans at Life’s end. Modules include:
Comprehensive Patient Evaluation
Quality End-of-Life Care
Culturally Appropriate Communication
Pain Treatment & Racial Disparities
Patient-Centered Decision Making
Fundamentals of Hospice Care
Spirituality in the End-of-Life Care
Behavioral and Psychosocial Symptoms of Dementia
International Psychogeriatric Association
Gardiner-Caldwell Communications Limited.
