Life Support Decisions
By Peter Walsh
New World Media Alliance

This important video will help elders, their families, and the professionals who work with them to understand their rights and options regarding life-support technologies and end-of-life care and decision making. Its discussion of the many issues involved in preparing Advance Directives encourages everyone to consider these questions, and to communicate their wishes to their loved ones and caregivers before becoming ill or hospitalized. Actual case histories, as well as interviews with leading experts, are tied together through a discussion group in which a broad spectrum of elders explore their hopes, values, and fears regarding end-of-life care.

50 minutes
© 1996
Purchase $149 VHS
Order No. QA-183
ISBN (VHS) 1-57295-183-4

Reviews
"Comprehensive, insightful, provocative and moving. This video should serve as the foundation for many educational efforts, and will empower individuals to have control over their own dying process." Carol S. Goodwin American Geriatrics Society

Awards & Conference Screenings
American Society on Aging Conference

Related Films
More than a Failing Heart: Family members describe examples of the best of end-of-life care, and of the worst, and reveal how competent and compassionate physicians and nurses can change the end-of-life experience.

Caring at the End of Life: Based on six case studies of seriously ill hospitalized patients, this moving film focuses on the key roles of nursing staff in improving patient-clinician communication in end-of-life care.

Stanley: This disturbing case study raises complex issues about medical prognosis and religious belief in end-of-life decision-making. Part of the Caring at the End of Life series.

The Right to Decide: Informed by the Patient Self-Determination Act, these outstanding physician-patient interviews explore patients' hopes, fears, and goals regarding end-of-life care.

The Support Project: Documents an effort to improve end-of-life care in hospitals through encouraging better patient, family, and physician communication.

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