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Measure of the heart : a father's Alzheimer's, a daughter's return

Author: Mary Ellen Geist
Publisher: New York : Springboard Press, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
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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  Read more...
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Named Person: Mary Ellen Geist; Woody Geist
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mary Ellen Geist
ISBN: 9780446580922 0446580929
OCLC Number: 181603307
Description: xiii, 224 p. 22 cm.
Responsibility: Mary Ellen Geist.
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Abstract:

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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by cwarden (WorldCat user on 2008-08-08)

Foreword by Oliver Sacks -- One more year -- Daughter, where are you? -- Missing moments -- The big decline -- A rainbow might appear -- Alzheimer's chicken -- Swoonboy -- Hospital hell and healing -- Helping hand -- Whistling in the dark -- The caregivers -- The rituals of denial -- The daughter track -- Where to turn -- When is it time? -- Have yourself a merry little Christmas -- The next step -- The pear trees -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.

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