The Alive Inside Documentary

1) This video was an educational and eye-opening documentary about the infamous Alzheimer’s Disease and its effects on the victim and their family. The film follows several different families, each directly affected by the disease, and how they cope with the loss of their, or a loved one’s, memories and mind. One such family, the Noonans, had a rare form of the disease, where its destruction of the mind began much earlier in life, around age fifty. Three of the Noonan siblings out of ten caught Alzheimer’s and none of the other seven knew whether they had the gene for it or not, passed on by their mother, who also died of this. Watching this unfold in the movie “The Forgetting” was rather eye-opening,

After watching the “Alive Inside” documentary, I felt a mixture of emotions since there were both heartwarming and tear-jerking scenes shown throughout the documentary. One example of a heartwarming moment was when Henry said, “[Music] gives the feeling of love and romance. I figure right now, the world needs to come into music [singing]. You've got beautiful music here”. One example of a tear-jerking moment was when I watched Denise's response to the music.

In this documentary, they put headphones on demented patients and play music from their youth on iPods. For a moment, they become alive again. They had a name for treatment: Music Therapy. One of the patients from the film – and the subject of a video that later became viral – is Henry. Henry is just one of the many demented patients who reconquers and relives his memories due to this Music Therapy.

We find that there are currently staffing shortages and the lack of long-term care facilities to compete with the growing number of senior citizen in our country (Williams, Nowak & Scoby, 2016). With these issues we find that each professional who assist within the field of geriatric care such as advocates and leadership, share a particular part in making a safe environment with adequate accommodations for seniors. There are differences in the leadership and advocacy perspective in senior care, but they both result in the common goal of a meaningful life for seniors daily.

As more and more elderly Americans choose to spend their later years in assisted living facilities, FRONTLINE and ProPublica examine whether this loosely regulated, multi-billion dollar industry is putting seniors at risk? Their film “Life and Death in Assisted Living” depicts different phenomenons that occurs in assisted living that America is unaware of. A testimony provided in the film describes assisted living as being “a rock that you don’t want to look under” because of the unspoken neglect and abuse of the residents in the facilities. This film focuses on the investigation and evaluation of the care provided by Emeritus’ assisted living facilities. It provides viewers with information on what makes assisted living unique, the qualifications

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke defines dementia as:“ word for a group of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. It is not a specific disease. People with dementia may not be able to think well enough to do normal activities, such as getting dressed or eating. They may lose their ability to solve problems or control their emotions. Their personalities may change. They may become agitated or see things that are not there. (Health, 2014).This essay is going to discuss and explore what dementia is and the four main types of dementia which includes Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, Frontotemporal Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia. Then it explores the physiology changes in different types and the signs and symptoms of dementia. This effect can change the life of people having dementia to suffer in physical issues, social isolation and mental illness. Next, it discusses how environmental changes and music therapy strategies work in dementia. Lastly, the supports that Alzheimer’s Australia and Emmy Monash Aged Care can provide.

One thing every living organism has in common on this planet-- age. No one wants to age or face the fact that aging is inevitable. However, since it’s impossible to beat the never ending time clock that is life; everyone wants to be as comfortable as possible when age finally does catch up with them. When the majority of people think of comfortability in old age, they think of living in their own homes and being surrounded by their loved ones. Not many individuals want to be placed into a nursing home type facility because they can’t imagine themselves being comfortable that way. Nonetheless, even though being placed in a home does take away some of an elderly person’s independence, usually the independence lost is in activities that person can no longer do for themselves. Indeed, nursing homes do have their own set of scary stories behind them; life lost, independence lost, and privacy lost, yet many of those stories are outdated. Upon investigation, it would be easy for anyone to scare themselves out of a nursing facility due to the stories that are out there. Yet, upon even further research people would be able to see how far the United States has come in their development and evolution of nursing care facilities. The care of the elderly in the form of nursing homes has faced a tough evolution starting off with a harsh past, to what nursing homes are like now, and what people can expect for the future of these homes.

We all have an image of what happens in nursing homes, however after watching this film all of our minds will be changed forever.

The book As We Are Now, written by May Sarton, targets those concerned with the care of elderly individuals in nursing homes. In the book, Sarton artistically highlights the plethora of ongoing issues social workers face in their work as they attempt to provide quality care to the elderly population. The book is written as the memoirs of a very thoughtful elderly woman, Caroline Spenser, as she spent part of her life in a nursing home; and brings to light the lack of quality of care that elderly individuals received when living in such a facility in the 1970’s.

We always want to live longer as much as we can and always wish to stay strong and healthy, this is not possible because the more we get older the more we becomes weak, sick and dependent on the health care system and caregivers. The purpose for this posting is to explain my views on the video living old, what I learn from the video, the most surprising thing to me in the video and one piece of information most likely to affect my nursing practice.

Upon aging, life changes occur; leaving an individual with many decisions to make. Amidst one of the most challenging decisions is who will care for the person when they are no longer able to do so, and where they will live. In today's society, nursing homes are a favored choice regardless of the gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status with approximately 352, 300 seniors living in special-care facilities throughout Canada (Stat Can, 2013). To many, nursing homes are seen as an ideal living arrangement for their loved elders, unfortunately that is not the reality for all seniors in these nursing homes. What seniors are led to believe is their new haven, may in fact, be just the opposite. Elders in Ontario nursing homes are being

There is a documentary from 2006 on PBS called Living Old from Frontline that interviews many elderly patients and their care-takers about living longer and the effect it has on them. It was very interesting to watch because it showed both sides of many problems facing the older adult and their families along with the potential decisions that will need to be made by them as people are living so much longer now. The purpose of this discussion is to address something I learned that I did not previously know, review what I found the most surprising, and what piece of information that will most likely affect my nursing practice after viewing this documentary.

“Alive inside” is a wonderful example of the effect music has on the mind. It is especially interesting how music can change people is moods and affects memory. The power of music is great. However this is not music therapy. It’s a beautiful illustration of the power of music, but there is always the issue of the music awakening negative emotions and memories. Therefore, if a song comes on that upsets the client there is no quick solution available. They would be able to gauge the client’s reaction to the music and they would be able to see them getting upset. There should be a clinically trained professional who can rectify the situation. They would be able to switch songs. Also, there is the socialization part. The IPod

In the film To Live, a man and his family experience the effects of historical events on their own lives while living in China from the 1940s until the late 1970s. This film is a work of fiction, but it creates a generalization about the lives of the common people and their imaginable struggle through life that they went through during the war. The war represented an ideological split between the Communist CPS and the KMT’s brand of Nationalism. Xu Fugui at the start has an addiction to gambling and does not take responsibility for his actions. It even shows the social norms of gender inequality of his wife, Jiazhen, refusing to leave and him yelling at her for having inflicted shame upon him. It isn’t later in the film that he realizes that

Needle pricks, medicine, exhaustion, sickness, pain, feeling different ‒ these are just a few of the things that people with mental disabilities and serious diseases have to go through on a daily basis. But what if there was a different kind of treatment that could comfort them or reduce their pain even a little bit? Fortunately, for the people facing these issues, there is. Music therapy is a relatively new approach that doctors, teachers, and many others are taking to help heal and improve the quality of life for their patients and students. It’s starting to become more common around the United States and is expected to become even more popular in the future. Books like Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart support the idea of music therapy by demonstrating how music can be used to soothe and improve the moods of individuals regardless of what they may be going through. Music therapy is an effective way to speed up the healing process and improve the emotional state of a wide range of people facing different obstacles in life.