Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

More than a Failing Heart 25 minutes The articulate people in this program describe examples both ofthe best of end-of-life care, and the worst. Their stories convey a vivid sense of the ways inadequatecare has contributed to their pain and loss – and of how truly competent and compassionate physiciansand nurses can change the character of the end-of-life experience. The film calls on caregivers above allto listen. Fanlight Productions CD-355 Video $199; Rental $60/dayMortal Coil: Voices From The Hospice 60 minutes This film was recently presented at the Nationalhospice Organization’s 19th Annual Conference in Atlanta. Ira Tyock stated: “Mortal Coil poignantlyachieves what volumes of textbooks and essays can not do... (it) should be seen by every student inclinical training, by physicians and nurses in practice, and by everyone concerned with how familymembers - and ultimately themselves - will die.”http://www.mortalcoil-eternalnow.com/Site/Mortal%20Coil.htmlMurder: Those Left Behind 18 minutes When a family member has been tragically murdered, thesurvivors not only face the shock of losing a loved one unexpectedly, but face the cruel fact that thedeath was caused by another human being. Families must content with the sensationalistic media, aconfusing and impersonal criminal justice system and a lack of privacy. In our attempt to offer supportto such families, five individuals describe their feelings of betrayal, rage and alienation. FilmakersLibrary Video $150, Rental $50My Girl Directed by Howard Zieff, Staring Dan Akroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky &Macaulay Culkin. A boy with a terminal illness becomes the object of affection for a little girl,estranged from her widowed father. The little girl is unusually sophisticated in her understanding of hercharacter and situation. DVD $13.01 Columbia/Tristar Studios http://www.amazon.com//My Life Michael Keaton plays an advertising executive who learns he is dying even as his wife (NicoleKidman) is pregnant. The film beautifully focuses on his anger over everything: the unfinished businessof his life and the probability he'll never meet his child. The late Dr. Haing S. Ngor is terrific as adoctor who helps Keaton's character to recognize the corrosiveness of his rage and to let go. The film isa heartbreaker but truly cathartic for anyone who has felt the blunt pain of losing someone close.Director: Bruce Joel Rubin Columbia/Tristar Studios DVD $9.95 http://www.amazon.com/My Mother, My Father 33 minutes This film takes a candid look at four families and their deep andoften conflicting feelings as they deal with the stresses involved in caring for an aging parent. Onefamily has chosen to have the husband’s father, who has Alzheimer’s disease, live with them, whileothers have chosen either nursing home care of some level of in-home support. Fanlight ProductionsHW-175 Video $185My Mother, My Father… Seven Years Later 42 minutes Revisits each family seven years after theoriginal filming – to explore changes over the years in family dynamics and caregiving needs. FanlightProductions HW-176 Video $185My Word Against Theirs Produced by Texas Cancer Pain Initiative, this video contains many movingpatient vignettes supporting the need for effective cancer pain management. The Resource Center •1300 University Ave. • Madison, WI 53706 • (608) 262-0978 • Fax: (608) 265-4014No Easy Way 30 minutes A suicide in the family is completely devastating for many reasons. Not onlyhas a loved one died, but also the pain of knowing they suffered in life is almost unbearable. Plus, allVideo list Page 45 of 68Rev 09