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Precious lives, meaningful choices : learning from families within pediatric palliative care / produced by Teaching and Learning Centre, University of Calgary ; producer/director, Fred Fountain.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminally ill children--Home care--Case studies.
- Terminally ill children.
- Children with disabilities--Home care--Case studies.
- Children with disabilities.
- Parents of terminally ill children--Case studies.
- Parents of terminally ill children.
- Parents of children with disabilities--Case studies.
- Parents of children with disabilities.
- Palliative treatment--Case studies.
- Palliative treatment.
- Children with disabilities--Home care.
- Terminally ill children--Home care.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Case studies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (41 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Massachusetts] : [Distributed by] The Fanlight Collection, [2017]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Among children with multiple special needs are some whose medical conditions will severely limit their potential lives. Their families struggle to give them the best possible quality of life while knowing that the time they have is limited. In this film four families share the challenges they've experienced in finding and training care assistants, coping with medical staff unfamiliar with their children's rare conditions, meeting the needs of the other children in the family, and, most of all, embracing their children's lives with courage, love, and hope in the midst of terrifying uncertainty about when the end will come.
- Credits:
- Camera/editor, Lawrie Edison.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Teaching and Learning Centre, University of Calgary, ©2006; previously released in 2007.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 1, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-prec Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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