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Video “Life History” produced by Berea College gerontology class having “premier” showing for its nursing home “stars,” their families and staff May 12

4/24/06
Students in Dr. Robert Smith’s Social Gerontology class at Berea College have spent the spring semester visiting with 10 residents at the Berea Health Care Center – listening to the residents as they talk about their lives and recording the interviews on videotape for a “Video Life History Project.”The result is an hour-long video that will “premier” May 12 during National Nursing Home Week. The video will be shown at a barbeque lunch at the Berea Health Care Center to all of the residents, their families Center staff, and the video’s student producers.

For the students, the service-learning project in partnership with the Berea Health Care Center was designed to help them understand the importance of this kind of intergenerational exchange. For relatives, it is hoped they’ll learn more about the lives of their family member. And for the residents, who all volunteered to take part in the project, it was an opportunity to share their unique and valuable life experiences with family and friends, and also contribute to a permanent history of the Berea community.
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