Separate Together

CareGiving is a Community

"Together" has always been an important word for Century Tree. Managing chronic diseases is all about patients, family members and home health aides coming together to share comfort, support and healing. Now, in the time of the coronavirus, we all need those things. We've started with more than 40 videos. We're hoping you'll take a look, and then take the next step, by helping us build The Separate Together Community.

Separate Together

Century Tree's Featured Stories

Century Tree Health Education produces stories about people just like you and me, learning to live with difficult conditions and problems.

LOVING (and maybe a bit nutty) FAMILIES

Acts of Grace

Imagine what might happen if your mom, Elaine, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, were to wander from home on Halloween Night in New York City. Wendy found out. Watch this harrowing, and then inspiring tale of love and redemption.

Bahala Na

The Big Generation makes its own videos, reality shows, and interactive social media. Bahala Na is our lyrical animated movie about Marisol, a Filipino home health aide who balances her patients’ needs with raising 4 daughters, half a world away, in The Phillipines.

Edge of Heart - episode 1

Pilot episode of the CareGivingLife flagship series, THE EDGE OF HEART.

Lean on Me - Music Video

The BIG Generation’s original music video of this great old standard tells the story of a couple who were ‘caregivers’ for one another from their twenties all the way through the old age they shared. The Big Generation’s Lean On Me is dedicated to its three leads, Robert Foster, Elaine Teitlebaum and Skip Mitchell, all of whom have passed away since this movie was made three years ago.

Meet Patti & Jerry

Patti and Jerry are the real-life stars of ‘The Follower.’ These two incredible actors are actually fighting against dementia themselves. If you’re worried they’ll make you sad, think again. What Patti and Jerry will do is help you re-discover your own joy, love and courage.

The Duppy

All of us who are over 50 love our nostalgic memories of childhood. The Duppy is a beautiful memory of a home health aide’s childhood growing up in Jamaice. A “duppy” is a ghost. For Donna, her duppy is a ghost who haunted the her life with recurring memories of her best friend, some of them lyrical and loving—others terrifying. Take Donna up on her invitation to visit the most private moments of her childhood—and revisit some of your own memories while you’re there.

The Follower

‘The Follower’ is a bittersweet short movie about a couple living with Alzheimer’s disease. She’s becoming more confused. He’s fighting for her, and against his own sadness. But they’re both full of love for each other—every single day.

FOR THOSE AMONG US WHO KNOW THE REAL MEANING OF TRUE LOVE

Our Home Health Aides and Loving Family Members.

Bahala Na

The Big Generation makes its own videos, reality shows, and interactive social media. Bahala Na is our lyrical animated movie about Marisol, a Filipino home health aide who balances her patients’ needs with raising 4 daughters, half a world away, in The Phillipines.

For Those Among Us

Even if you haven’t seen the spoken word version of For Those Among Us, without words, the bonds of love and devotion between caregivers and patients speak for themselves. What may be most touching, is that those beautiful bonds are equally loving in both directions.

Kindness & Respect

‘Kindness and Respect’ will bring you into the homes of two patients, Ethel Jeffers and Rosa Valdez. Both are getting older, and need help from caregivers. With their home health aides as our guides: 1) Competent caregiving and disease management; 2) Selfless devotion; 3) And then one that might surprise you—Friendship. Donna, one of the caregivers, describes her deep friendship with “Mrs. Jeffers” this way: “I treat her with kindness, because she’s a human being. And I am a human being. And we are here… together.”

Know for Sure

Mammograms aren't just for your patients.

LIVING WITH DEMENTIA

Many of our shows deal with issues that arise from living with certain diseases.

Kindness & Respect

Acts of Grace

The Follower

For Those Among Us - Music Video

Meet Patti & Jerry

GOOD WATCHES!

Acts of Grace

Edge of Heart - episode 1

The Follower

Bahala Na