Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

Schwartz notes, “Learning to die is also learning how to live.” Films for the Humanities & SciencesFFH 6035 Video $99Living Wills 30 minutes This program examines the concept of living wills and advance directives.Host Jamie Guth spends time with families in intensive care units, where they are forced to makedecisions about lifesaving care; their experience may serve as a guide to viewers who may want todecide before the event whether they wish to be maintained on ventilators, fluids, and drugs. Patients,their families, and doctors also present their views of the situation. Films for the Humanities APW3111Video $89.95Living with AIDS 28 minutes Most of us link death with AIDS, but the fact is that most people whohave HIV or AIDS live for many years with the disease. This program profiles several people with theHIV virus over the course of two years and examines the issues they face - issues of medication,handling the emotional ups and downs, dealing with family members, paying for medical care, anddealing with guilt. Profiled are a 25-year-old former drug abuser and her infected baby, currently“adopted” by a family to help care for the two; a 29-year-old female victim of sexual abuse; a musicalcomposer and performer, and a steer wrestler. In addition to exploring traditional medical care, theprogram also examines alternative therapies and social support systems. Films for the Humanities &Sciences BKU5333 Video $149, Rental $75Living with AIDS: An Occasion of Grace 30 minutes This video demonstrates how individuals canmake a difference in healing the physical, emotional, and spiritual scars brought on by the AIDSepidemic. USCC Publishing Services 031-1 Video: Member $11.97; Non-members $19.95Living With Cancer 28 minutes Not long ago, people with cancer had few treatment options. Today,advances in technology and scientific research have increased the number of effective treatmentapproaches. Biomodulation, gene therapy, and angiogenesis-inhibiting drugs are now becomingpartners with the more traditional forms of treatment. Surviving the physical ravages of cancer,however, is only part of the battle. Cancer exacts a psychological, social, and spiritual toll as well.Aquarius Productions, Inc. #INTLIVING $99Living with Cancer: A Message of Hope 56 minutes A cancer diagnosis can be a part of life and not theend of it—this film documents the experiences of some individuals who have been diagnosed,undergone treatment, and now live full and healthy lives. Cancer experts also share new research,insights on treatment and provide and overview of causes and preventative steps to lower risk. AquariusProductions, Inc. Video $125Living and Dying 30 minutes This program focuses on the stages of adjustment to death as proposed byElisabeth Kubler-Ross. It discusses the benefits for the surviving family of having a will or advanceddirective and looks at how culture and religion profoundly influences how people cope with their ownmortality and how families grieve. The program also outlines the benefits of hospice care. VHS /2003/#XAL6178-$129 http://www.insight-media.comLiving with Dying 90 minutes Death, which sooner or later comes to all, is treated as a strangely taboosubject in America. In this program, Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking—andtalking—about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking aboutdeath, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty,Video list Page 41 of 68Rev 09