This video examines the experience of caring for someone with Alzheimer's Disease through the eyes of four families: Chinese, Japanese, Latino, and Vietnamese. Through their experience, the viewer gains an appreciation for the intergenerational conflicts that can arise when family members attempt to integrate traditional cultural values with the norms of the majority culture and the pressures of day-to-day life. Services available to families caring for a demented elder are described, as are concerns about using those services.

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Alzheimer's...A Personal Story
Running time: 29 minutes/video
ADEAR (Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center)
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Part of a training course (Alzheimer's Disease: An Educational Training Program for Social Workers), this video poignantly portrays how Alzheimer's Disease affects the lives of three patients and their families. Personal accounts, home movies and photographs are used to demonstrate the profound effects of Alzheimer's. Issues of particular concern for social workers are highlighted in this video including: early stages of the disease; coping; long-term care; impact on children; and losses.

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Alzheimer's Disease: An Assessment
Running time: 29 minutes/video
ADEAR (Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center)
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285
Part of a training course (Alzheimer's Disease: An Educational Training Program for Social Workers), this video demonstrates the social work skills required to interview a demented elderly person.

Alzheimer's Disease: Interviewing and Assessment Techniques for Social Workers
Running time: about 30 minutes / video
Duke University Medical Center
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

Informational video aimed at training social workers to assess the functioning and needs of older persons which might point to a diagnoses of Alzheimer's Disease, in addition to tips on how to propose further evaluation.

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Alzheimer's Disease: It's a Disease, Not a Disgrace
Running time: 25 minutes / video
University of Pittsburgh
Alzheimer's Disease Center
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Actual footage of a small, short term support group including people with Alzheimer's disease at various levels of functioning. Includes tips on how to effectively facilitate a group of this type.

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Alzheimer's Disease: Responding to the Need
Running time: 20 minutes/ video
University of Pittsburgh
Alzheimer's Disease Center
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

An example of an interview and intervention with an adult daughter of a man with Alzheimer's Disease. Addresses the issues of control and independence that often arise under these circumstances and provides tips for giving emotional support and basic assistance to caregivers in these situations.

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An Assessment Interview (Alzheimer's Disease: An Educational Training Program for Social Workers)
Running time: 16:30 / video
University of Pittsburgh
Alzheimer's Disease Center
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

This video demonstrates an example of appropriate identification of an elderly family member's potential need for evaluation of suspected cognitive impairment.

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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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Detecting Dementia: Cognitive Assessment for Home Health Care Professionals
Running time: 18 minutes/video
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

A training tool about cognitive assessment for all health and social service professionals. This video attempts to increase awareness of the prevalence and manifestations of dementia in elderly clients, and enhance ability to identify clients with symptoms of dementia.

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Dignity, Activity and Laughter
University of Southern California
Andrus Gerontological Center
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Provides guidance for activity planning in adult day care centers serving people with Alzheimer's Disease or related dementias. Provides guidelines for selecting and analyzing activities according to the special needs of this population, as well as specific goals which should be considered.

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Memory: The Long and Short of It
Running time: 12:28 minutes/video
American Association of Retired Persons
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

This video and its accompanying guidebook provide information about memory and how it changes as we age. It is designed to help alleviate fears about memory loss and offer practical approaches to dealing with normal age-related memory changes.

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The Mental Status Examination of the Demented Adult
Running time: 18:52 / video
ADEAR (Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center)
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Part of an educational program intended to train people in the use of the Mental Status Examination with people with dementia including case presentations for practicing assessment skills.

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The Mental Status Examination of the Older Adult
Running time: 17:30 / video
The John Hopkins University
Alzheimer's Disease Center
Available from CASAS
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

An example of the use of the Mental Status Examination with an older woman.

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The Mind. Part 3, Aging
Running time: 60 minutes/ video
WNET, NY in association with the BBC
Available: c/o Media Center, Moffitt Library
University of California at Berkeley

This video challenges stereotypical views of the mental abilities of older people, with contemporary theories of aging illustrated by vivid case histories. It includes an accompanying program summary and teacher sheet to assist in classroom facilitation.

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Mind Shadows
Imagex Ltd.
Available: c/o Diane Driver
Center on Aging
535 University Hall
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 643-6427

An intense and intimate story of what happens to the mind and the life of a person experiencing a loss of mental continuity. Mind Shadows is a fascinating love story set against the rapid disintegration of one man's world; and simultaneously, his rebellion against the disintegration.

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Rethinking Dementia 
Running Time: 1 1/2 hours (2 audiotapes)
Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
Available: Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
School of Social Welfare
16 Haviland Hall
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-3285

Elery Hamilton-Smith is Professor and Honorary Research Fellow of the Lincoln Gerontology Center at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia.  He is the author of more than 800 books and articles. In this tape, Professor Hamilton-Smith describes his innovative new Enhanced Lifestyle Through Optimal Stimulus (ELTOS) guidelines for caring people with dementia.  This revolutionary treatment approach is based on the proposition that dementia is not an illness or disease, but an adaptive coping response to neural damage that can even be considered "successful aging".