This audio-cassette series assists in maximizing caregiving and coping skills. The information is a valuable tool which offers practical ideas and specific steps in finding better solutions and making educated decisions. Topics include: aging & the sandwiched generation, helping with physical decline, coping with mental loss, locating community resources, deciding on alternative living arrangements, dealing with your feelings, and keys to coping.

An audio-cassette series which will assist you with the legal and financial decisions associated with caring for your elderly relative. The information is a valuable tool which offers practical ideas and guidance for protecting your elderly loved ones and preventing financial misfortune. Topics include: preventing financial crisis through legal planning, important steps to estate preservation, and legal, financial and supportive tools.

Panel of three experts on working with caregivers who present on various issues including: work with caregivers of older persons with dementia, problems of working caregivers and strategies of relief which can be initiated by corporations, and programs for training in local hospitals.

Informational tape discussing the basic issues of caregiving for the aging population. Aimed at family caregivers.

Recording from the American Society on Aging's 38th Annual Conference symposium of the same name with a panel of experts on caregiving research. Each panel member presents the findings thus far with a focus on research, practice, consumer, and policy related issues. Follows is a discussion of the issues and insights into the future directions.

This symposium of the 38th Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging explores the findings of eldercare research including prevalence rates of eldercare and use of eldercare programs. Discusses the benefits of eldercare programs and their impact in the workplace. Includes an assessment of values inherent in views of worker performance and productivity. Lastly, provides results of a research and demonstration project which assessed the needs of caregivers and the impact of the program on worker performance.

Description of the Media (videotapes):

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Running time: 44 minutes/video
IRIS Films
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

A film about the progression of a woman with Alzheimer's disease and the difficult adjustments and decisions that her daughter must make in caring for her. The film makes it clear that with appropriate care, acceptance and a loving environment, an Alzheimer's patient can thrive even as the course of the disease advances. It provides inspiration for Alzheimer's caregivers, both formal and informal.

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Eldercare Issues and Answers
D.C.C.
Running time: 27 minutes / video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Video of an actual support group which explores the needs of child caregivers and the various issues that arise in this particular relationship.

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For Better or For Worse
Running time: 55 minutes / video
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

This video attempts to answer several inherent questions about long term relationship such as "What accounts for long term commitment?," " Why do some marriages last longer than others?," "What are some of the special problems confronting gay couples?," and others, by presenting intimate portraits of five culturally diverse couples married fifty years or longer. Their comments and stories, tinged with both joy and sorrow, are often eye-opening, remarkably frank and surprisingly open-minded.

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How to Find and Evaluate High Quality Eldercare
Running time: 42:30 / video
Lutheran Center on Aging
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Addresses the questions and issues which often arise for people with eldercare responsibilities. This video is intended to provide basic information about local resources, and to assist family caregivers to cope with and manage the responsibilities of caregiving.

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My Mother My Father: Caring for Aging Parents
Running time: 33 minutes/ video
Terra Nova
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

This documentary takes a candid look at four families and their deep and often conflicting feelings as they deal with the stresses and changes involved in caring for an aging parent. It offers honest and compelling insight into the need for families to make individual decisions about caregiving. And it elicits a better understanding of and support for individuals and families involved in caregiving.

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Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy
Running time: 19 minutes/ video
Women Make Movies
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

An artistic depiction of a woman attempting to come to grips with her new and ironic role of caring for the woman who once cared for her...her aged mother.

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Sexuality and Aging
Running time: 25 minutes/video
Oregon State University
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

An exploration of the attitudes, myths and reality of this important aspect of life. Older men and women from across the country openly discuss their relationships and experiences concerning aging, menopause, impotence and female/male imbalances.

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We Can Help You Take Care
Running time: 13:30 / video
Aerospace Corporation
Eldercare Referral Service
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Designed to inform employees of companies that utilize the Eldercare Consultation and Referral Service of Work/Family Elder Directions of the services that are available to them and to their parents.

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What About Mom and Dad?
Running time: 28 minutes / video
Southwestern Bell
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

A short peek at the lives of a family facing the difficult decision of placing their loved one in a nursing home and the financial consequences that result for the wife of this man.

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Where Do We Go From Here?
Running time: 9 minutes/ video
Educational Development Center
Available: Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

Depicts a family making living arrangements for an elderly parent who is about to be released from the hospital and who is unable to maintain an independent residence. Focuses on the emotions that emerge at such a time and the decision making process within the family.

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