1950′s Trivia Program
Features over 25 topics which include, but are not limited to: TV shows, actors, cowboys, products, medical inventions, history, movies, toys, musicals, songs, TV show host, and cost of living.
CHANNEL: | Medcalm Senior |
PUBLISHER: | Medcalm |
The First Geriatric Channel!
Medcalm provides the only specific, video content aimed at all levels of geriatric care. It includes 10 programs pre-packaged for hospital and nursing care TV networks. Our exclusive wellness, relaxation and trivia programs provide a visual and auditory experience that will engage, entertain and stimulate cognitive thinking. Relaxing sounds, images, music and words can be powerful medicine, and can transform waiting rooms, common rooms and patient rooms into positive, healing environments. Medcalm SenioRx is available via CCTV networks, cable systems or interactive patient care companies and is produced by Medcalm and others focused on improving senior care.
Features over 25 topics which include, but are not limited to: TV shows, actors, cowboys, products, medical inventions, history, movies, toys, musicals, songs, TV show host, and cost of living.
Contribute to your well-being, even when unable to get out of bed. This might help you fall asleep, too! These simple lower body movements are slow and clearly explained. All are gently done on your back—either under or over the covers. (26 minutes)
When exercise seems out of the question, this program of gentle movements might be just what the doctor or nurse suggests. Carol expertly leads viewers through slow, easy, clearly explained chair exercises for the entire body. Gentle, easy, whole body exercises when you are ready. (26 min)
A beginner’s program of safe simple stretches, breathing exercises, yoga postures and a relaxation – all done lying down on the back. Helps patients relax, renew, reduce stress, increase flexibility and feel better. Well-suited for anyone wanting gentle, slow exercise because of illness, seniors, the physically challenged and the blind. Excellent, too, for cardiac and cancer patients and may help with insomnia. (33 minutes.)
Step back in time with “Big Band & Jazz Remembered”. This video highlights a vibrant era in music and dance of the 1930s, 1940s, and beyond. Trivia includes; musical groups of the time, big bands, famous musicians, popular songs, dances, entertainers, and much more. Various audio and video clips from the time period are included in this dynamic video.
This experience coalesces the extraordinary moving images of the aurora borealis, photographed by Dirk Obudzinski and synchronized with his own music, with the universal gestures of dancers Meg Brooker and Emily Mott, images of our earth from space and abstracted human gestures through a rainbow of colors. Chinling Hsu’s healing voice adds frequencies towards inner calm.
Synergies emerge from explorations of nature through the music of Dirk Obudzinski
with his moving photographs of clouds, aurora borealis and the cosmos merging
with Linda DeHart’s luminous watercolors. This twenty-nine minute program incorporates the award-winning music of Joshua Hummel’s Gregorian Chants and Danish composer Niels Eje of MusiCure who specially composes evidence-based music created to have a calming and de-stressing effect. This beautiful music is perfectly aligned with Susan Latham’s imaginative, colorful and light reflecting photographs.
When exercise seems out of the question, this program of gentle movements might be just what the doctor or nurse ordered. Carol Dickman leads viewers through slow, easy, clearly explained chair exercises for the entire body. These are safe, credible and entertaining instructional programs (26 minutes)
Linda DeHart paints luminous moments of wonder in her energetic representations of floral beauty and the movement of the creative spirit. As we listen for the sounds of Joshua Hummel’s specially composed music, “Creation” then coalesces into a vibrant expression of love through Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony’s Adagietto synchronized with over two hundred watercolor landscapes.
Compositions of three award-winning musicians, Chris Curcio, Mark Rimbach and Hiroaki Honshuku, are synchronized with the beautiful landscape paintings of Linda DeHart. Capturing ones imagination into Life’s basic rhythms: lively and reflective, this combination creates a place where inner healing can happen.
This program will take you on a journey that will open your imagination to some of the most iconic places in the world. Have you ever dreamed of Italy or traveling to Hawaii? Have you visited national parks in the US or the pyramids in Egypt? Which destinations have you visited, and what were your experiences? This program will create an opportunity for your patients and caregivers to share their personal memories or possibly help them formulate new travel plans.
This is an open-eyed meditation for experiencing your essential nature. Journey through Linda DeHart’s watercolor landscape, while you are immersed in the deeply relaxing and healing music of Grammy-nominee and best-selling sound healer Steven Halpern, including the sounds of the Shakuhachi bamboo flute. Thirty-three minutes of Brainwave Entraining Music for inner peace synchronized with the beautiful paintings elicits a feeling of calm on all levels, allowing for deep healing benefits.
Infinite reflections of light are captured by the cameras of Martin Berinstein and Louis Henri Pingitore with custom music by Joshua Hummel. Chinling Hsu’s vocals with the music of Mexican composer Angel Sananda are complemented by luminous hand painted silks by Linda DeHart. Everything is synchronized with the music. This interplay of elements invites a reverie, as we witness breathtaking beauty in a place curiously calm.
Many moods are traversed throughout the abstract watercolors of Linda DeHart which are synchronized with the poetry of Jeff Volk and Zofia Monika Dove. Composer and musician Joshua Hummel’s stellar talent has been recognized with numerous music awards including The Leonard Bernstein Award for Composition, and JS Epperson is renown for his high quality meditation music. These art forms, intentionally merged to engage our senses, create a meaningful experience.
Susan Latham photographs her sculptures inspired by Nature’s own geometry. Immersed in natural light and reflection, captured in her camera, this moving art form invites a depth of discovery into their beauty. Eve Kodiak creates further intrigue with her piano as she explores these sculptural lines and forms in this thirty minute exploration into Nature in its most abstract essence. The merging of these three art forms, Sculpture, Music and Photography, invite the unexpected that engages our sense of aliveness and delight.
White noise program with solid light green screen
Thoughtful and inspiring quotes accompany majestic vistas and breathtaking scenery of the natural world. Combined with the uplifting melodies of Marc Enfroy’s piano compositions, this video will help soothe, calm and elevate your spirit.
Music of three award-winning composers Joshua Hummel, Blake Rowe and Mexican composer Angel Sananda is combined with the chanting of Chinling Hsu from Taiwan. These healing sounds are synchronized with the graceful movements of dancer Meg Brooker, and set into the uplifting light filled watercolors of Linda DeHart. Chakra balancing colors are intentionally incorporated to enhance a positive healing effect.
A beginner’s program all done sitting down in a chair. Safe simple stretches, breathing exercises, yoga postures and a relaxation, easily followed and precisely instructed. Relax, renew, reduce stress, increase flexibility, and feel better. For use in the hospital or nursing care setting when patients are able to sit in a chair and slow, gentle exercise is recommended. Benefits are for many, including those with arthritis, cancer, diabetes and cardiac concerns. (43 minutes.)
Walking in Beauty takes us along a path of watercolors from Linda DeHart synchronized with original music of several composers, including Danish musician Niels Eje, who specially composes evidence-based music created to have a calming and de-stressing effect. His MusiCure™ music is made in close collaboration with international researchers and healthcare professionals.