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From: Wayne.Roorda@f14.n385.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Roorda)
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Subject: Video Tapes
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Date: 18 Oct 90 03:42:58 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

In the October 22, 1990 issue of INSIGHT magazine in the
Health Briefing column on page 60, by Dina Van Pelt an
article titled "Videos Teach Patients About Home Care".

I'll quote the entire article as written and then ask
a couple of questions.

"To Help patients with chronic illinesses to care for themselves
once they leave the hospital, a California company has produced
three videos that address self-care, mental coping and family
support.

"It has always been intended that one of the main functions of
nurses and other hospital staff is to educate and inform patients
[about home care]," according to Peter Greenberg, a spokesman for
AftaCare Communications Inc. of Newport Beach.  "But unfortutnately,
that patient education function of hospitals has been one of the
hardest-hit financially."

The programs, the first to be released in a 13-part series, are
titled "At Home with Heart Disease," "At Home with Cancer" and
" AT Home with Diabetes."  They cover medications and how to take
them, what to expect in terms of emotions and what kinds of life-
style changes may ensue."

So far so good.  But, does anyone know the address and/or telephone
number of this firm?  What are the distribution channels?  Have
these tapes been reviewed for ease of speechreading?  Are they
close captioned?  My concern is that if the tapes haven't been
processed for any of the above they will not be of much benefit
to those who would probably need them the most.

Comments anyone?
                                            Wayne

BTW this has been cross posted in ABLED and SilentTalk.

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