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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.

Thanks for finding my website!

I am now living in Detroit, Michigan.

I will be moderating for Pulitzer Prize winning author David Marannis (“Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”) and author Kenneth L. Woodward (“Getting Religion”) at the upcoming “Festival of the Book” in Harbor Springs, Michigan on September 30th and October 1st. Check it out at hsfotb.org, and please attend if you can!

An article I wrote on music and Alzheimer’s came out in a recent issue of the AARP Bulletin. Click here to read it. I am continuing to write and give lectures about Alzheimer's and the healing power of music. If you haven't seen the movie "Alive Inside" check it out, or to view the trailer, go to this website: aliveinside.us.

Also, check out the Music and Memory Program at musicandmemory.org.

Enjoy my book, and thanks for looking me up!

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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