Measure of the Heart
Subtitle: A Father's Alzheimer's, A Daughter's Return
Contributors: Oliver Sacks (Foreword)
Publisher: Springboard Press
Published: August 13, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780446580922
Subjects: Aging - General; General; Parenting - Parent & Adult Child; Family & Relationships / Aging; Family & Relationships; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Alzheimer's disease; Biography; Care; Patients; Radio journalists; United States; Family/Marriage
Description: 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. 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.--From publisher description.