The Ida Institute is excited to announce the addition of nine new ethnographic films to our video library. The films, shot between 2009 and 2012, cover clinical session with patients around the United State and United Kingdom.
The films cover a variety of clinician-patient experiences: There is a wholly-positive young man who comes in for an appointment with a hearing aid in mind; appointments that end abruptly when patients get different news than they were expecting; a woman who shares her tips on how she introduces her hearing loss to new people and her different communication strategies; and different levels of readiness to take action across the spectrum in between.
All films were all shot by Ida Institute Senior Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen. “We have found out that the ethnographic documentary films are essential in understanding the topics we explore,” said Hans Henrik. “To be able to pose these questions it is imperative that the films mirror real clinical situations with real audiologists and patients.”
Ida has now begun identifying the state of change illustrated by the patients in each video, along with recommending tools that the films can be used to teach. Some of the patients filmed are asking questions about their hearing loss for the first time, and others have been living well with their hearing loss for years by the time Ida met up with them.
We will continue adding more films to the website in the coming weeks. Keep an eye on the Video Library for more updates.