Dad's illness led daughter to find new ways of caring, write 'Measure of the Heart'

Singing songs still provides a bond for Mary Ellen Geist and her father, who has Alzheimer's . Mary Ellen Geist went from being an award-winning radio journalist and show host with a busy social life to writing alone in her family's northern Michigan cottage on Walloon Lake and advocating for creative caregiving.

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