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The Audiovisual Column in The Gerontologist typically includes resources grouped according to a particular theme, such as Alzheimer's and related dementias, person-centered care, spirituality late in life, end-of-life decisions, or active aging and self-esteem. Sometimes, however, between the timing of the release of new resources and the scheduling of columns, it is difficult to compile resources according to a particular theme. Such is the case in this issue. Thus, what follows is a miscellaneous set of reviews of three diverse topics: home health care, Alzheimer's disease, and an example of active aging as a means of coping with widowhood. Glenda Avery's review of Everyday Choices: Ethics and Decision-Making in Home Care and Community Nursing, an excellent video on the demands of home health care nurses, emphasizes the moral and ethical dilemmas faced by the visiting nurse and her support staff as they attempt to serve a client living alone and facing the increasing threat of dementia. One of the strengths of the video is the quality of its direct cinema scenes, showing the visiting nurse interacting with her client in his apartment and later in a nursing home with him, as well as scenes of the visiting nurse discussing his case with the staff. In one particularly helpful scene, the Visiting Nurses' Association Ethics Committee meets to discuss the case. The video was directed by Ben Achtenberg, who has made other videos on health-related topics. For instance, his video Caring at the End of Life (2002) was reviewed in The Gerontologist (43, 1, 2003).

Phyllis Braudy Harris' review of Alzheimer's Disease: Inside Looking Out is a fresh perspective on a video that has been available for 10 years—but never reviewed in The Gerontologist. Harris highlights the importance of the way this video gives voice to those with Alzheimer's disease, and she places that perspective in the context of research that emphasizes the concept of personhood—which recognizes the humanity of the person with dementia. Her review is a welcomed addition to a list of other videos on Alzheimer's and related dementias previously reviewed in The Gerontologist (see Vol. 37, 6, 1997; 38, 3–4, 6, 1988; 40, 2, 2000; and 42, 6, 2002).

The third video reviewed below, The Checker King, is a lighthearted profile of the filmmaker's uncle, once an Iowa state checker champion who—6 years after being widowed—decides to make a comeback.

Footnotes

Robert E. Yahnke, PhD, Audiovisual Editor

References

• Kitwood, T., (1997). Dementia reconsidered: The person comes first. Buckingham: Open University Press.
• Kitwood, T., & Benson, S., (Eds.) (1995). The new culture of dementia care. London: Hawker Publications.
• Kitwood, T., & Bredin, K., (1992). Towards a theory of dementia care: personhood and well-being. Ageing and Society, 12, 269-287.[Medline]

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