A different kind of care
- Date
2000
- Summary
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At the end of life, what many Americans want is physical and spiritual comfort in a home setting. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers presents the important strides being made in the area of palliative care at pioneering institutions such as New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These advances are bringing peace to those who fear that they will be a burden to loved ones, will suffer needlessly, or will be abandoned in their hour of greatest need. Originally broadcast as part of the PBS mini-series On our own terms, Moyers on dying in 2000.
- Contributors
Mannes, Elena; Moyers, Bill D.
- Publishers
Public Affairs Television (Firm); WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
- Genre
Documentary television programs
- Subjects
Personal and Family Lives; Science, Technology; Health, Family Studies; Terminal care; Terminal care facilities; Palliative treatment; Hospice care; Death; Death -- Psychological aspects
- Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
87 minutes; color
- Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
Creation/Production Credits
Produced and directed by Elena Mannes ; writers, Elena Mannes, Bill Moyers ; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York. Host, Bill Moyers. Director of photography, Gregory Andracke ; editor, Nobuko Oganesoff ; music, Michael Small.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089727; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10732; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3207; Catalog Key: alephsys004128134; OCLC: ocn606617417
Access Restrictions
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