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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach and ally.
2) 55 steps
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
In recovery from a life-threatening illness, Kate's work as an elf at a Christmas-themed shop begins to suffer as she keeps the secret from her employer and does not discuss it with her first-generation immigrant parents or her distanced sister. As the holidays draw closer, she encounters the same kind-hearted man repeatedly, and finds herself eventually warming to him despite his unreliable nature, letting his optimistic worldview gradually change...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
Publisher
Pines Education Institute of S.W. Florida
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
"Know which stage of dementia your loved one or patient experiences to customize your caregiving techniques. In this training program, Teepa Snow explains the appropriate levels of care needed during different stages, which types of behaviors to expect, appropriate activity programs and much more. Learn: how to calmly convince your loved one or patients to stop driving ; how to safeguard your relationship with your loved one or patient as the disease...
Publisher
Pines Education Institute of S.W. Florida
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Through learning about what makes an activity engaging and valuable, how to create a safe and inviting environment and more with early-onset dementia patients, this DVD helps professional caregivers to provide the best care for people with dementia.
Publisher
Pines of Sarasota Education and Training Institute
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Preparation and readiness are key to being the best possible caregiver. This workshop is packed with over 3 hours of essential preparation tips and advice to provide you with vital information and solutions for all situations. Learn to: make the most of doctor's visits ; get proper screenings to determine the stage of the disease and the best level-appropriate care ; look for vital legal and financial documents that need to be prepared before the...
9) The shift
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In one twelve-hour hospital shift in the ER a veteran male nurse, struggling with the haunting guilt of his brother's drowning, is forced to train a new nurse. The two are at odds throughout the story, because, while they both struggle with the spiritual turmoil of right and wrong, they both come to very different philosophies. One plays life-saving nurse. The other plays God and allows patients to die or even helps them to die.
10) Five feet apart
Formats
Description
Stella is a vibrant, fun-loving seventeen-year-old, who, unlike most teenagers, has to spend much of her time living at a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. When Stella meets Will, a charming and rebellious fellow patient, she feels a powerful connection, but the risk of life-threatening infection dictate that she and Will maintain a safe distance between them. As their feelings grow, Stella and Will face a life-changing question: How does love...
11) My all American
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the field, faces the most difficult challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Publisher
Pines of Sarasota Education and Training Institute
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"A 2 hour Alzheimer's/dementia care training DVD. Teepa Snow demonstrates effective approaches to bathing, eating, dressing, transfers, and how to respond to certain types of behaviors in patients living with dementia."--Container.
13) 50/50
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
14) All my life
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Based on a powerful true story, it follows the journey of a young engaged couple who make the difficult decision to accelerate their wedding in the wake of a devastating discovery. In a race against time, they launch a crowdfunding campaign that spreads the story of their inspiring love far and wide to help create their dream wedding. This year, love like there's no tomorrow.
15) You're not you
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
16) Backtrack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Psychiatrist Peter Bower's life is thrown into turmoil when he discovers that his patients all share a similar, dark secret. Risking his own sanity, Peter delves into his past to uncover a terrifying secret, which only he can put right.
17) Now is good
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Live every moment, love every minute. A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. On the top of her list is the desire to lose her virginity.
18) K-PAX
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A stranger who calls himself Prot, seemingly appears out of nowhere. Claiming to come from the distant planet K-PAX, Prot draws the attention of jaded Dr. Powell, whose initial skepticism soon turns to fascination and amazement. As Prot continues to baffle the experts, his return to K-Pax is fast approaching, and the search for answers intensifies.
19) Self/less
Publisher
Gramercy Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
20) 6 souls
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In an attempt to open his daughter, Dr. Cara Harding, up to accepting unexplainable psychiatric theories, her father introduces her to Adam, a patient with multiple personalities who takes on some of the physical characteristics of his other personalities. Cara quickly discovers that Adam's other personalities are murder victims and the more she finds out about him and his past, the closer she and her loved ones are to becoming murder victims themselves....
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