Podcast with Author and Alzheimer’s Caregiver Mary Ellen Geist

Posted on 20. Oct, 2008 by Karen in Caregiving, Inspiration, Resources

I’ve graduated from just blogging (well it’s never really “just”, is it) to my first podcast interview with author Mary Ellen Geist who left her successful career to come home to Michigan to take a new job as caregiver to her father, Woody who is a victim of Alzheimer’s.  Talking with Mary Ellen was like connecting with a soul sister.  We both have parents with dementia, both are from Michigan and both are in midlife. 

Hearing about Mary Ellen’s midlife transition — can we ever really call these things a crisis — was amazing especially since she decided to share her experience in her new book Measures of the Heart – A Father’s Alzheimer’s, A Daugher’s Return.  It a wonderful story that had me smiling in some chapters and crying in others.  I hope you’ll add this to your book list for a long winter’s night (at least here in Michigan). 

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