A GIFT OF LIFE

Duration: ea 29½min

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Kinescopes

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. AGING IN THE WORLD TODAY. Charts the scope of the series in its treatment of four major aspects of old age: health, employment, housing and leisure time. 2. MEETING THE COST OF MEDICAL CARE. An analysis of society's responsibility to provide medical and convalescent care for our older citizens outside the hospital. 3. HEALTH MAINTENANCE. Preventive medicine, the maintenance of an individual's health at its greatest potential, and stresses five main points. 4. REHABILITATION FOR OLDER PEOPLE. Demonstrates the equipment, agents and techniques of restoring the chronically ill and disabled to useful, active lives. 5. ALLEGHENY STORY. A visit to a rehabilitation hospital shows how the stagnant institution of the county poorhouse became a dynamic rehabilitation hospital. 6. HOUSING, A MAJOR PROBLEM. Explains the new mortgage legislation passed by Congress that assists older people to buy or rent living quarters adapted to their needs. Describes the operation of Kundig Center. 7. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. Explains the designs and social plan of Cedar Apartments, public housing in Cleveland, Ohio. Points the way for private builders in the design of Orange Gardens in Kissimmee, Fla. 8. PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE—THE ARCHITECT EXPLAINS. Describes the social plan that created Presbyterian Village in Detroit, a forty-acre rental development of apartments and private rooms for retired people. 9. FINANCING LATER YEARS. Gives views on the problems and methods of maintaining an adequate income for older citizens after retirement. 10. EMPLOYMENT OF THE OLDER WORKER. Explains the prejudices against hiring the older worker after age 45. 11. SENIOR ACHIEVEMENT, INC.—THE CHICAGO EXPERIMENT. Describes Senior Achievement — a new program to employ the lifetime skills of older workers. 12. ENJOYING THE GIFT OF TIME—SERVICE TO OTHERS. Describes Detroit Volunteer Services, Motor Aide and Friendly Visitors of the Volunteer Services. 13. ENJOYING THE GIFT OF TIME—LIBERAL EDUCATION. Highlights the challenge to use the gift of leisure to gain a liberal education. 14. PATTERNS TODAY AND FOR THE FUTURE. Explains that the gift of an additional 20 years of life places a heavy responsibility on all facets of American life.

Complete Record: Source: MichU-TV Interest level: sh-c-ad Price: ea $100, rent ea $5 Format: sd b&w

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)