Measure of the heart
Subtitle: caring for a parent with Alzheimer's
By: Mary Ellen Geist ; foreword by Oliver Sacks
Edition: 1st trade ed.
Publisher: Springboard Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780446699709
Subjects: Adult children of aging parents; Mental health; Biography; Radio journalists; Patients; Alzheimer's disease; Care
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-222)