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Measure of the Heart: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return
Springboard Press
August 2008
On Sale: August 13, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0446580929
EAN: 9780446580922
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Mary Ellen Geist decided to leave her job as a CBS Radio
anchor to return home to Michigan when her father's
Alzheimer's got to be too much for her mother to shoulder
alone. She chose to live her life by a different set of
priorities: to be guided by her heart, not by outside
accomplishment and recognition. The New York Times wrote a front page story on Mary Ellen on
Thanksgiving 2005. It was one of the most e-mailed stories
for the month. Through her own story and through interviews
with doctors and other women who've followed the "Daughter
Track"--leaving a job to care for an aging parent--Geist
offers emotional insights on how to encourage interaction
with the loved one you're caring for; how to determine daily
tasks that are achievable and rewarding; how the personality
of the patient affects the caregiving and the progression of
the diseases; as well as invaluable advice about how
caregivers can take care of themselves while accomplishing
the Herculean task of constantly caring for others. Geist's years in journalism allow her to report on Boomers'
caretaking dilemmas with professional objectivity, and her
warm voice brings compassion and insight to one of the most
difficult stituations a son or daughter may face during his
or her life.
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