Women with rheumatoid arthritis: "Don't take us at face value"

An information package designed to assist HACC (Home and Community Care) administrators and service providers in caring for women with rheumatoid arthritis. It addresses aspects of the experience of the disease, the side effects of treatment, the impact on self image and self esteem, barriers to receiving HACC services and the need to increase community awareness. Accompanied by an 11p. Supplementary Booklet and the 65p. “Women with rheumatoid arthritis: a home and community care demonstration project report, 1989.”

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Credits

producer

Arthritic Women's Task Force

director

Steve Macdonald

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1989

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324373

Language

English

Subject categories

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Arthritis

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Women - Health and hygiene

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

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Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1989

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