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Priory, the Only Home I've Got

1978 28 min
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The Priory is a public extended-care hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, for people suffering from chronic geriatric illnesses. Treatment is innovative. It is based on the theory that even the ordinary activities of a patient's life contain elements of therapy. The film shows us how patients are encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves despite their confinement to wheelchairs.

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The Priory is a public extended-care hospital in Victoria, British Columbia, for people suffering from chronic geriatric illnesses. Treatment is innovative. It is based on the theory that even the ordinary activities of a patient's life contain elements of therapy. The film shows us how patients are encouraged to do as much as they can for themselves despite their confinement to wheelchairs.

Seniors Health and Medicine All subjects
  • director
    Mark Dolgoy
  • producer
    Anne Wheeler
    Tony Karch
  • executive producer
    Michael Scott
  • camera
    Doug McKay
  • sound
    Ralph Parker
  • editing
    Christopher Tate
  • sound editing
    Marke Slipp
  • music
    Geoff Venables

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