A health care apparatus (10) and methods are described for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient's home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient in the patient's home, including personal story content elements (40) in which an interviewee (42) is shown discussing one or more issues related to the patient's medical condition. One or more content elements are selected according to a medical condition of a given patient and presented to the patient via a display device (14) of a user interface (12) located in the patient's home. Methods are presented for generating audio visual content for presentation to a medical patient in the patient's home in which a set of questions relating to a given medical condition is generated (102) and questions from the set are presented (104) to at least one interviewee, such as an actor or a person having the given medical condition. The interviewee's responses to the presented questions are recorded (106) and edited (108) to create a personal story content element which is then stored (110) in a content element storage coupled with a communications network from which content elements are selected for presentation to patients having the given medical condition.