Measure of the Heart: Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer's, (Paperback)

from nmulvany

Hope. Grief. Frustration. Exhaustion. Delight. Denial. Mary Ellen Geist touches on all these emotions and many more in her account of dealing with her father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. She put her career and life on hold and returned to her childhood home in Michigan to help her parents...

from ddirmeyer

A beautifully written book outlining the author's return home to help her mother take care of her father who is suffering from Alzheimers. While Geist loves her father and learns much about life and herself through being a caregiver, she also paints a realistic picture of the trials and strains i...

from ddirmeyer

A beautifully written book outlining the author's return home to help her mother take care of her father who is suffering from Alzheimers. While Geist loves her father and learns much about life and herself through being a caregiver, she also paints a realistic picture of the trials and strains i...

from pando19

How It Is Living with Alzheimer's Mary Ellen Geist left a stellar career as a radio broadcaster to move home and help her mother take care of her father, Woody, a sufferer of Alzheimer's. She did not know, could not know what she was in for. Like so many daughters who move home to cope with this ...

from brsquilt

Excellent book about dealing with father who has Alzheimers. A loving account of how she and her mom kept the father stimulated and active.