"The Caregivers", UCSF School of Medicine, The Caregivers Project - A video for family caregivers and providers, sharing their perspectives about the demands of family caregiving, 2008.

"Family Matters - Coming Together for Alzheimer's" - A video that is designed to introduce newly diagnosed and early stage patients and families to the world of Alzheimer's. 2006

"Involving Patients in Redesigning Care" - A video and manual (one in a series of seven) that documents the experiences of health care organizations as they strive to improve patient outcomes by redesigning the ways they deliver care. Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) & Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 2004

"One Story, Two Voices; A candid conversation between a cancer patient and her oncologist", Julie Goldman and Lidia Schapira, MD. - A video that comes with a study guide. 2001

"Spirituality, Religious Wisdom, and the Care of the Patient" - A video that documents an interfaith academic and clinical colloquium addressing healing and the human response to illness, organized by St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center and the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College. 2006.

"Remaking American Medicine", PBS Series, Health Care for the 21st Century

"Voices from the Lived World of Illness: Advanced Cancer", Southwestern Vermont Health Care and the Institute for Medical Humanism. Four patients share their experiences at time of diagnosis, coping with illness and expectations of their doctors. 2002

"What Matters to Families: Speaking the Same Language", The Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care - Speaking with parents of terminally ill children. 2003

"When Things Go Wrong: Voices of Patients and Families", Tom DelBanco, MD, CRICO/RMF. Patients and their families share the impact of medical errors on their lives and offer insights that could improve the healthcare system and patient-provider communication. A guide for learners and facilitators is included. 2006

"When Breast Cancer Comes Back: Skills for Living", Family Health Productions. Five women tell how they dealt with metastatic breast cancer. 1999

"203 Days", Bailey Barash Productions. A video documentary and teaching tool that gives a first-hand glimpse of what it can be like to take care of a dying parent. It is a useful film and resource for patients, families, and any health professional supporting a dying patient. 2007

Schwartz Center Videos Produced for our Annual Dinners

The Schwartz Center has selected the following videos, produced for our annual dinner as helpful resources for patients and families. These videos are available from our lending library. To request a copy, you can contact us at (617)724-7576 or by email: schwartzcenter@partners.org.

1996 - "One Patient's Story"
Highlights the life of Ken Schwartz, a health care lawyer and founder of The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, with interviews before his death. The film shows moments of engagement between Ken and his caregivers and demonstrates how important compassionate care was for Ken during his illness, and how the Schwartz Center's goal to improve the delivery of compassionate care can affect us all positively.

2002 - "Bridging Two Worlds"
Highlights the personal and professional effects of cancer on two nurses - one from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and one from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - who took part in a study conducted by the MGH Institute of Health Professions with a grant from the Schwartz Center. The study looked at the experience of 25 nurses diagnosed with cancer and how their experiences affected their relationship with patients.

2003 - "Someone Who Cares: Three Portraits"
Highlights three patients whose caregivers were nominated for the Schwartz Center's Compassionate Caregiver Award. They were each asked to describe the qualities of a compassionate caregiver, how that caregiver makes them feel, and how and why it makes a difference. A central theme emerges: their caregivers were able to connect and empathize with them, making them feel hopeful and less alone.

2004 - "Compassion: Teaching and Practicing"
Highlights a unique program funded by a major grant from the Schwartz Center to Boston Medical Center (BMC) that teaches communication and relationship building skills to residents. The video featured two faculty members and a resident at BMC who were involved in this new and innovative training program. The family of a patient who died and his physician described the importance of compassion and how it made the family's ordeal more bearable.

2005 - "Beyond the White Coat and the Johnny: What Makes for a Compassionate Patient-Caregiver Relationship"
Highlights from a panel discussion on compassionate care sponsored by the Schwartz Center at its 10th anniversary and moderated by veteran journalist John Hockenberry. The panel included clinicians and patients, and Darshak Sanghavi, MD, summarized the elements of compassionate care based on Rounds discussions held at 54 hospitals in the summer of 2005.

2006 - "Five Caregivers: One Vision"
HIghlights the five Compassionate Caregiver Award finalists for the 2006 award. The award was established to honor exceptional caregivers. The video profiles the five finalist and their relationships with their patients.

2007 - "Transformed by Illness: Caregivers as Patients"
Highlights three caregivers who share their experiences of being a "patient" and how that experience has impacted their professional life. Through the video the caregivers share some of their inner feelings of what it was like to "be the patient" and in turn how that has influenced them to be more compassionate and attentive to their patients' needs.