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GERIATRICS

GERIATRICS


ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

This program uses a question and answer format to assist individuals in making decisions about the personal care they desire at the end of life. It clearly explains the difference between a Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare, and mentions many of the decisions that must be made- including resuscitation, tube feeding, and pain relief options. The reasons for designating a healthcare proxy or agent are also discussed.

Item no.: PA08380033
Format: DVD
Duration: 12 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 325.00

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AVOIDING MALPRACTICE

This four part series uses scenarios and case studies to present an in-depth look at how deviations in standards of nursing care for hospitalized patients can lead to tragic results for not only patients and their families but also to healthcare professionals. Throughout the scenarios, red flags indicate the nurse's breach of duty. At the end, those breachs are summarized and recommendations for change are offered.

Item no.: FJ08380065
Format: DVD
Duration: 82 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 970.00

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AVOIDING MALPRACTICE: CASE OF THE ELDERLY FALL

An active, independent woman is admitted for a near-syncopal episode. While there, she twice falls from her bed, breaks her hip, and has a stroke. The fact that she is never cared for by the same nurse during seven days on three inpatient units leads to tragic results.

Item no.: ZL08380066
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 325.00

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AVOIDING MALPRACTICE: CASE OF THE GREEN DRAINAGE

A dramatization of a man who enters the hospital for a simple laproscopic cholecystectomy and develops signs and symptoms of peritonitis which are ignored by the staff until it is too late.

Item no.: ZC08380067
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 325.00

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AVOIDING MALPRACTICE: CASE OF THE PELVIC FRACTURE

A school -age girl is injured during a horseback riding lesson.Tragedy ensues as staff doesn't recognize that her condition deteriorates from mild shock to cardiopulmonary failure.

Item no.: GD08380068
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 325.00

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AVOIDING MALPRACTICE: INTRODUCTION

Discusses the incidence and prevalence of malpractice in the United States. Describes each of the elements of malpractice and how nurses can avoid the common pitfalls associated with them. Legal nurse consultant Tracey Albee is interviewed to provide practical and forensic information.

Item no.: LN08380069
Format: DVD
Duration: 16 minutes
Copyright: 2007
Price: USD 325.00

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DEMENTIA WITH DIGNITY

Enhancing Quality of Life
The primary goal of this program is to familiarize the viewer with general techniques for effectively working with individuals suffering from dementia. Included are the detrimental effects of isolation and ways to assist patients to maintain as normal a daily life as possible. Techniques illustrated include use of music and rhythm, use of familiar objects, assisting patients to re-assume self-care, and the importance of gentle touch.

Communicating Effectively
Communication skills are a key factor in effectively working with individuals suffering from dementia. In this program, specific skills including tone of voice, eye contact, touch, reflective listening, and acceptance are discussed. Included are real-time examples of the communication techniques described.

Meeting the Special Challenges
This program explains, illustrates, and proposes solutions for a variety of situations which may emerge when caring for individuals with dementia. These include loss of inhibitions, repetitive behavior, non-cooperation, anger, aggression, catastrophic reaction, sleeplessness, and wandering.

Dementia and Resident Rights:Freedom of Sexual Expression
This program discusses sexual desires that are present despite the onset of advanced age or dementia. Professional actor beautifully depict the types of loving relationships that may develop in long term care failities. Also included is information on patient rights, family issues, the need for appropriate facility policies and procedures, and the benefits to these patients that come from feeling loved. The film is narrated by actress Anne Meara.

Item no.: CG08380120
Format: DVD
Duration: 79 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 970.00

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DEMENTIA WITH DIGNITY: COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

Communication skills are a key factor in effectively working with individuals suffering from dementia. In this program, specific skills including tone of voice, eye contact, touch, reflective listening, and acceptance are discussed. Included are real-time examples of the communication techniques described.

Item no.: FP08380121
Format: DVD
Duration: 19 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 325.00

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DEMENTIA WITH DIGNITY: DEMENTIA AND RESIDENT RIGHTS - FREEDOM OF SEXUAL EXPRESSION

This program discusses sexual desires that are present despite the onset of advanced age or dementia. Professional actor beautifully depict the types of loving relationships that may develop in long term care failities. Also included is information on patient rights, family issues, the need for appropriate facility policies and procedures, and the benefits to these patients that come from feeling loved. The film is narrated by actress Anne Meara.

Item no.: VB08380122
Format: DVD
Duration: 16 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 325.00

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DEMENTIA WITH DIGNITY: ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE

The primary goal of this program is to familiarize the viewer with general techniques for effectively working with individuals suffering from dementia. Included are the detrimental effects of isolation and ways to assist patients to maintain as normal a daily life as possible. Techniques illustrated include use of music and rhythm, use of familiar objects, assisting patients to re-assume self-care, and the importance of gentle touch. Also discussed is using information about the patient's life.

Item no.: AE08380123
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 325.00

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DEMENTIA WITH DIGNITY: MEETING THE SPECIAL CHALLENGES

This program explains, illustrates, and proposes solutions for a variety of situations which may emerge when caring for individuals with dementia. These include loss of inhibitions, repetitive behavior, non-cooperation, anger, aggression, catastrophic reaction, sleeplessness, and wandering.

Item no.: CV08380124
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2006
Price: USD 325.00

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PORTAIT OF ABUSE

Domestic Violence: Portrait of Abuse is a powerful and compelling series that not only raises our social awareness of the effects and cycles of domestic violence, but digs into the psyche of both the victim and aggressor to better understand how a new outcome can be realized. Using interviews with actual battered women and abusers, the porgrams offer helpful and practical advice from survivors, healthcare personnel, shelter advocates, social workers, and prosecutors.

Item no.: PK08380137
Format: DVD
Duration: 57 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 880.00

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PORTAIT OF ABUSE - PORTRAIT OF ABUSE PART 1

The series begins with an overview of the incidence and prevalence of domestic violence both in the united State and internationally. It also inroduces the views to the women who were abused either physically, psychologically, emotionally, and/or sexually as they tell their stories. It concludes with a list of screening tips for professionals to help them identify, interview, and provide interventions for victims of domestic violence.

Item no.: MZ08380138
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 325.00

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PORTAIT OF ABUSE - PORTRAIT OF ABUSE PART 2

This program begins exploring the patriarchal idea that man is the ruler in the home and women are merely his possession. Various flim clips, ranging from Citizen Kane to Titanic are used to illustrate how this concept has been perpetuated in the media. In addition, healthcare professionals describe the characteristics of abusive men, and one man, who identifies himself as a former perpetrator, speaks about his aggressive actions toward his wife and how intervention helped him change his behaviors and restore his relationship.

Item no.: DF08380139
Format: DVD
Duration: 15 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 325.00

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PORTAIT OF ABUSE - PORTRAIT OF ABUSE PART 3

The final program in this series is a dramatization of a battered woman who is brought into the emergency department for care by her abusive husband. In this vignette, identification of a victim, interviewing her in a private place, notification of authorities, and providing her with information about help available to her are explored. At the end of this segment, the women interviewed earlier talk about how they were able to move out of their abusive relationships, gain self-esteem, and move on with their lives.

Item no.: RK08380140
Format: DVD
Duration: 27 minutes
Copyright: 2008
Price: USD 325.00

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EFFECTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE

Transition to Palliative Care
This program discusses important concepts for the care of patients in transition from curative to palliative care. Topics include pain management, addiction fallacies, common symptoms and treatment side effects, ramifications of disease progression, home health care, family support, and the common physical symptoms of dying.

Team Approach to Palliative Care
The team approach to caring for dying patients, patient and family reactions to a terminal condition, and communication techniques are discussed and demonstrated. Also addressed are assessment of the patient's emotional status, religious and cultural differences, and methods for responding to anger, denial, depression, and rejection. Age-appropriate care of children and the elderly is discussed, and the self-care of professionals working with this population is outlined.

Bereavement Issues in Palliative Care
This program discusses the stages and ramifications of grief, mourning, and bereavement, and the effects of professional interventions. Aspects of grief and loss discussed include physical and mental deterioration, spiritual crisis, altered goals and relationships, reactions to suffering, and the healing process. Communication strategies, appropriate closure, child and teenage concepts of death and personal issues of mortality are examined.

Item no.: VR08380145
Format: DVD
Duration: 68 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 880.00

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EFFECTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE: BEREAVEMENT ISSUES IN PALLIATIVE CARE

This program discusses the stages and ramifications of grief, mourning, and bereavement, and the effects of professional interventions. Aspects of grief and loss discussed include physical and mental deterioration, spiritual crisis, altered goals and relationships, reactions to suffering, and the healing process. Communication strategies, appropriate closure, child and teenage concepts of death and personal issues of mortality are examined.

Item no.: JG08380146
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 325.00

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EFFECTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE: TEAM APPROACH TO PALLIATIVE CARE

The team approach to caring for dying patients, patient and family reactions to a terminal condition, and communication techniques are discussed and demonstrated. Also addressed are assessment of the patient's emotional status, religious and cultural differences, and methods for responding to anger, denial, depression, and rejection. Age-appropriate care of children and the elderly is discussed, and the self-care of professionals working with this population is outlined.

Item no.: PC08380147
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 325.00

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EFFECTIVE PALLIATIVE CARE: TRANSITION TO PALLIATIVE CARE

This program discusses important concepts for the care of patients in transition from curative to palliative care. Topics include pain management, addiction fallacies, common symptoms and treatment side effects, ramifications of disease progression, home health care, family support, and the common physical symptoms of dying.

Item no.: HK08380148
Format: DVD
Duration: 24 minutes
Copyright: 2005
Price: USD 325.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE

Nutrition for Independent Elders
Focuses on community-based seniors who are relatively healthy. Highlights diseases that have an underlying nutritional origin, and the physiologic changes of aging that can negatively affect nutrition. Discusses the nutrients and fiber needed by aged individuals, along with a description of the Food Guide Pyramid and the Tufts' 70+ Pyramid. A brief discussion of supplements concludes the program.

Nutritional Risks and Challenges
Focuses on nutritional challenges for elders, particularly those at risk for malnutrition or who are ill. Presents factors that contribute to malnutrition, and discusses assessment including screening tools and laboratory data. Illustrates interventions for those who are ill and at home or in healthcare facilities. Discusses also the role of the interdisciplinary team.

Preventing Falls
Presents indicators that an older person is at risk for falling. Explores the common causes of falls - dehydration, medications, urinary problems, impaired visual function, and poor balance and gait - and interventions to minimize the risk. Highlights safety in the home and cites important prevention measures in the home and in healthcare facilities. Emphasizes that many falls are preventable and that fall reduction plans are the responsibility of everyone caring for the elderly.

Elder Abuse
Discusses the growing problem of elder abuse. Describes the various types of abuse and details characteristics of abusers. Barriers to getting help, including social, cultural and medical factors are presented. Preventing abuse, and assessing and treating elders who have been mistreated are covered at length. Discusses various governmental agencies and services designed to help elders and their family caregivers prevent abuse before it occurs.

Elder Abuse
This program discusses the growing problem of elder abuse. It describes the various types of abuse and details characteristics of abusers. Barriers to getting help including social, cultural, and medical factors are presented. Preventing abuse, and assessing and treating elders who have been mistreated are covered at length. Discusses various governmental agencies and services designed to help elders and their family caregivers prevent abuse before it occurs.

Item no.: EG08380153
Format: DVD
Duration: 100 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 970.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE - ELDER ABUSE

Discusses the growing problem of elder abuse. Describes the various types of abuse and details characteristics of abusers. Barriers to getting help, including social, cultural and medical factors are presented. Preventing abuse, and assessing and treating elders who have been mistreated are covered at length. Discusses various governmental agencies and services designed to help elders and their family caregivers prevent abuse before it occurs.

Item no.: TT08380154
Format: DVD
Duration: 27 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 325.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE - ELDER ABUSE

This program discusses the growing problem of elder abuse. It describes the various types of abuse and details characteristics of abusers. Barriers to getting help including social, cultural, and medical factors are presented. Preventing abuse, and assessing and treating elders who have been mistreated are covered at length. Discusses various governmental agencies and services designed to help elders and their family caregivers prevent abuse before it occurs.

Item no.: AB08380155
Format: DVD
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 325.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE - NUTRITION FOR INDEPENDENT ELDERS

Focuses on community-based seniors who are relatively healthy. Highlights diseases that have an underlying nutritional origin, and the physiologic changes of aging that can negatively affect nutrition. Discusses the nutrients and fiber needed by aged individuals, along with a description of the Food Guide Pyramid and the Tufts' 70+ Pyramid. A brief discussion of supplements concludes the program.

Item no.: TF08380156
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 325.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE - NUTRITIONAL RISKS AND CHALLENGES

Focuses on nutritional challenges for elders, particularly those at risk for malnutrition or who are ill. Presents factors that contribute to malnutrition, and discusses assessment including screening tools and laboratory data. Illustrates interventions for those who are ill and at home or in healthcare facilities. Discusses also the role of the interdisciplinary team.

Item no.: EF08380157
Format: DVD
Duration: 24 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 325.00

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ELDER ISSUES: NUTRITION, FALLS AND ABUSE - PREVENTING FALLS

Presents indicators that an older person is at risk for falling. Explores the common causes of falls - dehydration, medications, urinary problems, impaired visual function, and poor balance and gait - and interventions to minimize the risk. Highlights safety in the home and cites important prevention measures in the home and in healthcare facilities. Emphasizes that many falls are preventable and that fall reduction plans are the responsibility of everyone caring for the elderly.

Item no.: BN08380158
Format: DVD
Duration: 24 minutes
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 325.00

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IMMOBILITY: PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS

Impaired Mobility: Physical Consequences
Describes alterations in body functions occurring with impaired mobility. Common problems such as muscular atrophy, fluid and electrolyte disturbances, disorders in blood clotting mechanisms, disuse osteoporosis, retained respiratory secretions, and urinary stasis are discussed along with their long-term negative impact on patient health.

Impaired Mobility: The Nurse's Role
Discusses nursing interventions such as deep breathing and coughing, maintaining body alignment, positioning and turning, skin care, nutritional support, fluid intake, and promoting exercise as preventive measures to avoid or minimize complications of impaired mobility and bedrest.

Pressure, Shear, and Friction: Assessing Risk
Discusses the incidence of pressure ulcers and their enormous cost, both monetarily and in terms of human suffering. The program then discusses principles of pressure, shear, and friction; illustrates how they occur in the healthcare setting; and describes the type of tissue damage they inflict. It also describes staging of pressure ulcers, cites factors that place a patient at risk for developing pressure ulcers, and concludes with a discussion of commonly used assessment tools.

Pressure, Shear, and Friction: Prevention and Intervention
Describes general nursing measures, such as frequent position changes to reduce pressure for patients in both bed and wheelchair. It illustrates more advanced techniques such as "bridging" for patients who require complete relief of pressure and discusses measures to reduce shear and friction. Further, it describes some of the pressure-reducing equipment-mattresses, mattress overlays, mattress replacements and specialty beds.

Item no.: TT08380196
Format: DVD
Duration: 88 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 970.00

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IMMOBILITY: PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS - IMPAIRED MOBILITY : THE NURSE'S ROLE

Discusses nursing interventions such as deep breathing and coughing, maintaining body alignment, positioning and turning, skin care, nutritional support, fluid intake, and promoting exercise as preventive measures to avoid or minimize complications of impaired mobility and bedrest.

Item no.: ZU08380197
Format: DVD
Duration: 23 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 325.00

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IMMOBILITY: PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS - IMPAIRED MOBILITY: PHYSICAL CONSEQUENCES

Describes alterations in body functions occurring with impaired mobility. Common problems such as muscular atrophy, fluid and electrolyte disturbances, disorders in blood clotting mechanisms, disuse osteoporosis, retained respiratory secretions, and urinary stasis are discussed along with their long-term negative impact on patient health.

Item no.: CV08380198
Format: DVD
Duration: 22 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 325.00

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IMMOBILITY: PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS - PRESSURE, SHEAR, AND FRICTION: ASSESSING RISK

Discusses the incidence of pressure ulcers and their enormous cost, both monetarily and in terms of human suffering. The program then discusses principles of pressure, shear, and friction; illustrates how they occur in the healthcare setting; and describes the type of tissue damage they inflict. It also describes staging of pressure ulcers, cites factors that place a patient at risk for developing pressure ulcers, and concludes with a discussion of commonly used assessment tools.

Item no.: GU08380199
Format: DVD
Duration: 21 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 325.00

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IMMOBILITY: PREVENTING COMPLICATIONS - PRESSURE, SHEAR, AND FRICTION: PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION

Describes general nursing measures, such as frequent position changes to reduce pressure for patients in both bed and wheelchair. It illustrates more advanced techniques such as "bridging" for patients who require complete relief of pressure and discusses measures to reduce shear and friction. Further, it describes some of the pressure-reducing equipment-mattresses, mattress overlays, mattress replacements and specialty beds.

Item no.: ZT08380200
Format: DVD
Duration: 27 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 325.00

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MEDICATION CHALLENGES IN THE ELDERLY

Medication Challenges in the Elderly, Part 1
This program begins with a vignette depicting the concern of relatives when an elder has a sudden onset of confusion. Underlying causes for this change in mental status are suggested. The extent of medication use in elders and factors increasing their risk for adverse drug reactions is discussed. The effect of aging on pharmacokinetics is presented in some depth. Interspersed throughout are clinical problem situations that require the learner to apply recently acquired information.

Medication Challenges in the Elderly, Part 2
This program, continuing the vignette from Part 1, discusses the pharmacodynamics of drugs along with further explanation of some causes of adverse drug reactions in the elderly. Reasons for the under use of medications for pain and depression are examined. The program focuses in large part on measures to forestall problems and reduce the number of adverse drug reactions, such as avoiding medications if another solution exists, using the MASTER rule for rational drug therapy, closely monitoring.

Item no.: YA08380239
Format: DVD
Duration: 42 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 650.00

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MEDICATION CHALLENGES IN THE ELDERLY, PART 1

This program begins with a vignette depicting the concern of relatives when an elder has a sudden onset of confusion. Underlying causes for this change in mental status are suggested. The extent of medication use in elders and factors increasing their risk for adverse drug reactions is discussed. The effect of aging on pharmacokinetics is presented in some depth. Interspersed throughout are clinical problem situations that require the learner to apply recently acquired information.

Item no.: GN08380240
Format: DVD
Duration: 18 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 325.00

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MEDICATION CHALLENGES IN THE ELDERLY, PART 2

This program, continuing the vignette from Part 1, discusses the pharmacodynamics of drugs along with further explanation of some causes of adverse drug reactions in the elderly. Reasons for the under use of medications for pain and depression are examined. The program focuses in large part on measures to forestall problems and reduce the number of adverse drug reactions, such as avoiding medications if another solution exists, using the MASTER rule for rational drug therapy, closely monitoring.

Item no.: LY08380241
Format: DVD
Duration: 24 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Price: USD 325.00

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QUALITY OF TIME: AN INTRODUCTION TO HOSPICE

Primarily intended to acquaint patients considering home hospice care and their family members with the specifics of that care. This DVD program is appropriate also for healthcare professionals, as well as for those in support education. It gives an in-depth look at the two major facets of successful home hospice care: the family member who acts as the primary caregiver for the patient: and the hospice team - physician, nurse, social worker, home health aide, chaplain, volunteer, and auxiliary.

Item no.: SG08380337
Format: DVD
Duration: 25 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Price: USD 150.00

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SEE ME

Suggested by a poem, this beautiful, evocative, and timeless black and white film urges the viewer to see the individuality - the talents, rich family history, and ageless person - residing inside the lined faces and time-worn bodies of the elderly.

Item no.: WU08380354
Format: DVD
Duration: 10 minutes
Copyright: 2001
Price: USD 150.00

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