Mary Ellen Geist - Official Website

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Publisher: Springboard Press
Pub. Date: August 6, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0446699709

Measure of the Heart featured in O Magazine, read the article, Wired for Sound by Oliver Sacks, MD here.

Are you interested in making the world a better place by spreading the word and getting involved in the healing power of music, especially when it can help people living with Alzheimer's disease? Are you a musician, and in particular, an a cappella singer? For published references on music therapy most likely to engage people living with Alzheimer's, sources of vocal groups near you, ideas on getting started, etc., please contact Bart at with 'Alz' in the subject line.

Happy Spring!

Thanks for finding my website. It's been an eventful year: lots of lectures about my book as well as other appearances involving caregiving and music. I'm working on a screenplay based on "Measure of the Heart" and I'm continuing to write articles for several magazines as well as other projects.

Maria Shriver has asked me to contribute to her blog, "Architects of Change". An essay I wrote about my father just went live on the website. Here's the link.

Also, I will have a booth and I'll be signing books at the 29th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary event in the Midwest. It's in Chicago on Polk and Dearborn.
I'll be there June 9th fro 4 to 6 pm. If you're in the area, stop by.

Here's to a wonderful summer!

Mary Ellen Geist

Caring For a Loved One with Alzheimer's

This dynamic video offers insight, hope, and understanding for anyone who cares for a loved one with Alzheimer's. This disease without cure currently afflicts more than 30 million people and there are no treatments to halt its progression, making caregiving both essential-and difficult.

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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.

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