This documentary shows what happened when Alzheimer’s came into my mother’s life and how we managed it. What started as a private memorial video for Mom found a new life in its current metamorphosis as a possible motivator for others to consider home care for their parents instead of automatically going the nursing home route.
After making his granddaughter sleep with the light off, Frank struggles coming to terms with the dark.
In this short documentary film, the activation of grandma's memory is explored by revisiting old pictures of her loved ones.
While battling Alzheimer’s disease, Deenie Hartzog-Mislock’s grandmother invents a wild story and the family learns to love an imaginary man named Nick Stephanopoulos.
Throughout the years, the role of a mother and grandmother is to take care of her own. However, when roles are forced to switch, one daughter and granddaughter must find the pieces of taking care of their recently strange loved one..
Untangling Alzheimer's is a dramatic and inspiring medical investigation driven by David Suzuki's journey to understand the science of Alzheimer's and the surprising new insights into its cause. David has a very personal interest in the disease because his mother, aunt and two uncles died of it. We join David on an intimate journey as he explores the newest breakthroughs in this devastating disease as well as his own chances of contracting the cruel condition.
This short film follows Dotty Grey who must fight to protect her memories from the effects of Alzheimer's disease. Ultimately, she is faced with a decision - either she continues to knit everything back together or accepts that she is losing her memory and should enjoy what is left of them.
The phenomenon that occurs in a room full of objects from the past allows Ulises to temporarily recover his memory.
Leonor desperately search for her son Perico, without realizing that she is wrapped in her Alzheimer's disease.
Jane is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and she tries her best to cope. She starts by recording the most important moments in her life, hoping she will always remember the things that should not be forgotten. She chooses to stay home and her daughter, Natalie, employs a full time caregiver to take care of her while she goes off to work. Days pass, and Alzheimer’s progresses. Jane’s condition deteriorates. She starts to forget some words, and then completely forgets the journal and making entries. She starts to forget her only daughter. Natalie desperately tries to hold on to the memories as they fade from Jane’s mind. What was once a shared memory now only belongs to Natalie.
Carl and Susan, husband and wife, scientist and artist, navigate the challenges of Carl’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
An immersive documentary about four nurses working in retirement houses in Alzheimer units. Near to Claire, Luca, Antoinette and Lika, we discover how the nurses work, how the care is possible, with patience, ability, intelligence, tenderness and love.
Australian artist Leon Pericles faces his greatest challenge: holding an exhibition of his life's works while facing the mental decline of his wife and collaborator Moira, as Alzheimer's disease turns their world upside down.
Unusual events surround the hospitalization of a father with Alzheimer’s disease.
Documentary about euthanasia.
It narrates the life of an old man who suffers from Alzheimer's and before all his memory is erased he wants to remember, for the last time, the love story that he lived with Margarita.