Living with Alzheimer’s Disease:
The Family Caregiver’s Guide
Peter V. Rabins, MD
(6 tape series)

The Beginning
Order# AD218 (VHS)
Ideal for family members and support groups, this program includes the viewer in a session with Dr. Rabins and family members. Topics include: recognizing symptoms indicating need for an evaluation; what to do if a family member refuses evaluation; how to determine if person is able to continue living independently; how to handle the driving situation; making simple environmental modifications; and suggestions on how to accept the diagnosis. This program hits the hard must knows and how to handle the very difficult situations which accompany the beginning years.
family interviews
20 minutes
title price: $150; $75 rental

The Middle Years
Order# AD 219 (VHS)
Talking with family members, Dr. Rabins helps them to identify ways in which to better cope with behaviors of the disease in this stage.
Topics include: how to manage aggression, wandering and memory loss. Families suggest ways to minimize frustration, maximize independence, establish reassuring responses and create safe environments.
family interviews
20 minutes
title price: $150; $75 rental

Endings
Order# AD220 (VHS)
Families share the changes associated with the final years of caregiving. They discuss anticipating and dealing with increased care needs, respite care, end of life decisions, and dealing with loss.
family interviews
20 minutes
title price: $150; $75 rental

The New Relationship
Order# AD221 (VHS)
Everyone who cares for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease agrees that this disease changes and creates new relationships.
The caregiver, whether a spouse or adult child, becomes the decision maker, often assuming nearly a parental role. Accepting this new role of total and perhaps undesired responsibility can often result in frustration, despair, feelings of hopelessness and loss. Working with families, Dr. Rabins helps them to identify new and positive roles.
family interviews
20 minutes
title price: $150; $75 rental

The Caregiver’s Options
Order# AD222 (VHS)
After a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s helpful for the family to meet and create a care plan. This plan needs to take advantage of the strengths and abilities of each family member. It also needs to be flexible, responding to different stages of the disease. What works in the early stages may need to be re-visited later on. Options for care discussed are: rotating family caregivers; day care; respite care; foster care; long-term care and in-home health care providers.
family interviews
20 minutes
title price: $150; $75 rental

Ethical Issues
Order# AD223 (VHS)
Alzheimer’s disease raises many ethical issues. Families will find some of these quite challenging. Topics include: getting the initial assessment; making the decision that independent living is no longer a safe option; addressing the issue of driving and taking away a license; and making medical decisions.
family interviews
20 minute
title price: $150; $75 rental

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Program titles

Grace Notes
 Order# AD201
» Description and video clip

Alzheimer’s Disease:
A World of Fear
(2 DVD series)
 Catastrophic Reactions and Other
      Fear Induced Behaviors
 Order# AD206
 Positive Solutions to Minimize
      Fearful Behaviors
 Order# AD207
» Descriptions

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