Lightner Library-Keuka College

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Alzheimer's project / HBO Documentary Films and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health ... present.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

3 videodiscs (533 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)

Summary:

The Alzheimer's project features a four-part documentary series (The memory loss tapes; Grandpa, will you remember me?, Caregivers, and Momentum in science), 15 short supplemental films, a website, and a nationwide community-based information and outreach campaign, to capture what it means to experience the disease, to be a child or grandchild of one who suffers, and to care for those who are affected.

Target Audience Note:

Rated: TV-PG.

Subjects:

Alzheimer's disease -- Research.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

Alzheimer Disease.

Caregivers -- psychology.

Family Relations.

Biomedical Research.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Family relationships.

Alzheimer's disease -- Research.

Genre:

Television programs -- United States.

Documentary films.

Documentary television programs.

Educational television programs.

Nonfiction films.

Nonfiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Nonfiction television programs.

Educational television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Shriver, Maria. What's happening to Grandpa?

HBO Documentary Films.

National Institute on Aging.

Home Box Office (Firm)

Other Title:

On container: Hope, the Alzheimer's project

Memory loss tapes.

Caregivers.

Grandpa, do you know who I am?

Momentum in science.

Notes:

Collective title from menu screen.

"Grandpa, do you know who I am?" based on the book What's happening to Grandpa? / by Maria Shriver.

On container is the word "Hopeless"; "less" is crossed out leaving "Hope."

Originally broadcast in 2009.

Executive producers, Sheila Nevins, Maria Shriver ; series producer, John Hoffman.

Host: Maria Shriver.

DVD, widescreen presentation; DVD 9; Region 1.

Closed-captioned; English with optional English or Spanish subtitles.

Contents:

Disc 1: The memory loss tapes / directed and produced by Shari Cookson and Nick Doob. Grandpa, do you know who I am? with Maria Shriver / directed and produced by Eamon Harrington and John Watkin. Caregivers / directed by Bill Couturié ; producers, Anne Sandkuhler and Bill Couturié -- Disc 2: Momentum in science (parts 1 & 2) / produced by Susan Froemke and John Hoffman -- Disc 3: Momentum in science : the supplementary series [12 segments].

ISBN:

1419880934

9781419880933

Publisher or Distributor Number:

1000094678

4000018041

2000007949

2000018774

2000018775

Other Number:

318998781

System Availability:

4

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

4

Control Number:

530736

Call Number:

DVD RC523 .A49 2009

Course Reserves:

0

# Local items in:

4

# System items in:

4