DYING AT GRACE: A DOCUMENTARY VIDEO

A comparison of patients dying at home and patients dying at a hospice: sociodemographic factors and caregivers' experiences.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether there were any differences between patients who died at home and patients who died at a hospice, that is, sociodemographic variables, the family caregivers' experiences of burden, and their opinion of reasons for hospice care. METHODS The study comprises a consecutive sample of family caregivers to adult patients: (I) who were cared f...

ShapeShifting Documentary: A Golden Age

ShapeShifting TV denotes an approach to interactive television programmes that can adapt during delivery to the preferences of the active viewers. ShapeShifting TV is based on a declarative language called Narrative Structure Language (NSL) and is accompanied by a set of genre and production independent authoring and delivery tools. ShapeShifting TV was validated via a number of productions. A ...

Mosquito: A Discovery Channel Documentary

T Discovery Channel documentary Mosquito, worldwide premiere scheduled for July 6, 2017, is an excellent film intended to educate those who are unaware of the dangers posed by mosquitoes worldwide. Well, not exactly. Mosquitoes themselves pose no great dangers to humans, livestock, or wildlife. It is the viruses or other potential pathogens that mosquitoes carry and can transmit that are the da...

DIY Dying: Video Activism as Archive, Commemoration and Evidence

Grace

whence she had come nor whither she was bound, for she had no record of any kind with her. When she was questioned her vocabulary seemed to consist solely of head shakings and a few utterly unintelligible syllables. It is not recorded how Grace happened to be thrust into a second grade that first day. But it was the second grade teacher who began to complain, a few days later, of "that little n...