all the latest news from the University of Maryland School of Medicine Video Press producers of award winning documentaries on disability awareness and elder care http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu Create your own Resident's Perspective series: Buy 2, get one FREE. In preparation for Resident Appreciation month, Video Press is offering a special on Perspective of the Elderly titles and now is the perfect time to expand your staff development tools with three titles from our popular Perspectives of the Elderly series. Just purchase any two Resident's Perspective titles, and get an additional Resident's Perspective title for free, a $150 savings! Call our office today to take advantage of this special sale - TOLL FREE: 800-328-7450. This offer will end March 31, 2010. http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#02022010 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#02022010 The SOMVideoPress channel on YouTube has an new video titled Nursing Home Resident Appreciation. Don't miss this short video where elderly residents in long-term care talking about their nursing assistants who show them kindness and appreciation. Residents want us all to know that they truely appreciate nursing assistants who appreciate them. Please share this video with your co-workers and staff so everyone can hear this important message! Note: This video includes clips from the following Video Press programs: Nursing Home Heroes, The Challenge of Life's Journey, Care Includes Our Emotional Well-Being, A Good Day in Long-Term Care, Appreciating Us, Our Need For Caring Relationships, Forever Beautiful, Great Nursing Assistants, and Resident's Rights. You can check out video clips of all these titles on the Video Press website. http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#01132010 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#01132010 Video Press will be celebrating March with our first annual Resident Appreciation Contest. Show us how you appreciate residents! Just write a story about your favorite resident or describe five things your nursing staff does to make residents feel special and send it to Video Press. Three winning entries will be selected on March 17, 2010 to be published on this website and the winners will recieve one free DVD of their choice from our entire catalog. Entries can be submitted via e-mail to videopressmail@som.umaryland.edu or by regular mail to Video Press, 100 N. Greene St. Suite 300, Baltimore, MD 21201-1563. Please include the author's name and contact information with each entry. For more information please call our office at 800-328-7450. http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#01072010 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#01072010 A new extended video clip is now available of Alzheimer's, The 36-Hour Day on YouTube! This program is an excellent introduction to Alzheimer's disease and to the nationally acclaimed best seller, The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life. In this video Dr. Peter V. Rabins (co-author of the book The 36-Hour Day) introduces Alzheimer's through one family's experience with the disease. Watch in this short clip as Nancy has trouble keeping her train of thought, and can't tell you what city she lives in, but she can still have fun and communicate with the right approach. Bob takes care of his wife and explains that things can be difficult, but that patience and understanding are the key to a successful 36-hour day with Alzheimer's. http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/2009.html#12152009 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/2009.html#12152009 MedSchool Maryland Productions and Video Press present seven new video programs focusing on issues such as smoking, resident's rights, delirium, and caring for Alzheimer's patients... http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/2009.html#04032009 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/2009.html#04032009 Recently HBO has produced a national public awareness campaign on Alzheimer’s called "The Alzheimer’s Project" (www.hbo.com/alzheimers/) including four documentary feature films and 15 supplemental films on medical research as well as the true life tales of caregiving and living with the disease. "The Memory Loss Tapes," one of the four feature films directed/produced by Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, is a verité documentary with seven segments profiling people living with Alzheimer's. The fourth segment in the documentary is titled "Lady in The Mirror" and was filmed on location at Cherrywood Nursing Home in Maryland, and produced by Susan Hannah Hadary, Director of MedSchool Maryland Productions and Video Press. Be sure to check out "The Lady in the Mirror" (about half way through the film) which profiles Yolanda Santomartino 6 years after her diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Yolanda can't recognize her own reflection and struggles with visions of snakes in her wheelchair but still enjoys having her hair done and talking with people in this short glimpse of Alzheimer's. http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#06112009 http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/news/current.html#06112009