Measure of the Heart

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.

subjects: Adult children of aging parents,  Mental health,  Patients,  Alzheimer's disease,  Radio journalists,  Biography,  Care,  Journalists, biography,  Journalists, united states,  Alzheimer's disease, patients,  Adult Children,  Alzheimer Disease,  Caregivers