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Measure of the heart : a father's Alzheimer's, a daughter's return / Mary Ellen Geist ; foreword by Oliver Sacks.

by Geist, Mary Ellen.

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New York : Springboard Press, 2008.

Geist, Mary Ellen.

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Alzheimer's disease -- Patients -- Care.

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Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007047221-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0804/2007047221-b.html

9780446580922 :

xiii, 224 p. 22 cm.

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.

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