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1) Still Alice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Series
Home care companion. Communication volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (43 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
(Producer) Caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease can be very challenging for caregivers. As the disease progresses, different areas of the brain are affected. People in mid to late stages of Alzheimer's may have difficulty expressing their needs in words, may be less able to reason, and may be unaware of what is socially inappropriate.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (54 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this episode of Nova, three women at risk of developing Alzheimer's join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease, while sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (67 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
Offers specific information on how Alzheimer's affects the perception of reality, common symptoms, and redirection and "fiblets" as strategies for dealing with Alzheimer's-related behaviors.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 Movie classics puzzle, 1 Funniest moments of comedy DVD set, 1 Sound of Music Soundtrack, 1 Dancing with elephants (paperback), 1 Everyday fashions of the fifties (paperback) : 1 clear plastic container ; 15 x 171/2 x 6 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Six-disc DVD set of rarely seen performances, home movies and bloopers from movies, radio, television, and stand-up comedy.
Description for Dancing with elephants: Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dancing With Elephants includes insightful interviews with chronic disease experts Toni Bernhard, Lucy Kalanithi, and Patch Adams. Sawatsky's landmark book provides support that only a fellow traveler down this road can offer. If you like touching...
12) Memory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom...
13) Away from her
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's 'forgetfulness' actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since this is the nursing home 'no-vistors,' first 30 days policy of a patient's...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claire Smythson, wife of the famous abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his last show.
15) Iris
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (215 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Golden Pond: Shows the conflicts between three generations as the Thayers, a crotchety old professor and his wife, spend their summer together on a lake in New England. The couple agrees to mind their estranged daughter's boyfriend's child, while daughter and boyfriend go on a trip. The boy bonds with the old man in a way his daughter never did. Shows the terrors and graces of aging.
Away from her: Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Britt is a struggling artist who returns home for a Thanksgiving reunion with her wealthy family. She revisits painful memories and reconciles with a past her mother chooses to ignore - until a secret about the family matriarch changes everything.
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They thought it would last five weeks. Instead it went for 151 spectacular sold out shows over a triumphant year and a half across America. What made this tour extraordinary was that Glen had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was told to hang up his guitar and prepare for the inevitable. Instead, Glen and his wife went public with his diagnosis and announced that he and his family would set out on a "Goodbye Tour".
19) Hamlet & Hutch
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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