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The Alzheimer's project
Title
The Alzheimer's project [videorecording] / HBO Documentary Films and the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health ... present ; executive producers, Sheila Nevins, Maria Shriver ; series producer, John Hoffman.
ISBN
1419880934
9781419880933
Published
[United States] : Home Box Office ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2009.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (533 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Notes
Collective title from menu screen.
"Grandpa, do you know who I am?" based on the book What's happening to Grandpa? / by Maria Shriver.
On container is the word "Hopeless"; "less" is crossed out leaving "Hope."
Originally broadcast in 2009.
Closed-captioned; English with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Summary
The Alzheimer's project features a four-part documentary series (The memory loss tapes; Grandpa, will you remember me?, Caregivers, and Momentum in science), 15 short supplemental films, a website, and a nationwide community-based information and outreach campaign, to capture what it means to experience the disease, to be a child or grandchild of one who suffers, and to care for those who are affected.
Variant and related titles
On container: Hope, the Alzheimer's project
Memory loss tapes.
Caregivers.
Grandpa, do you know who I am?
Momentum in science.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2010
System details note
DVD, widescreen presentation; DVD 9; Region 1.
Audience
Rated: TV-PG.
Contents
Disc 1: Memory loss tapes / directed and produced by Shari Cookson and Nick Doob ; Caregivers / directed by Bill Couturié ; producers, Anne Sandkuhler and Bill Couturié ; Grandpa, do you know who I am? with Maria Shriver / directed and produced by Eamon Harrington and John Watkin
Disc 2: Momentum in science (parts 1 & 2) / produced by Susan Froemke and John Hoffman
Disc 3: Momentum in science : the supplementary series [12 segments].
Videorecording number
1000094678 Home Box Office
4000018041 Warner Home Video
2000007949 Warner Home Video (disc 1)
2000018774 Warner Home Video (disc 2)
2000018775 Warner Home Video (disc 3)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Television programs - United States.
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Educational television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HBO Documentary Films.
National Institute on Aging.
Home Box Office (Firm)
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