Walking Each Other Home

<p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walking Each Other Home: A Caregiver's Journey of Grace </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>by Ann-Marie Murrell is based on the real-life meaning of the 5</span><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th</sup><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Commandment and the importance of caring for our elderly family members. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walking</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> begins with straightforward advice about how to get your house in order long before the funeral avoiding some of the pitfalls Ann-Marie faced when hurriedly finding ways to help her parents after both were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.    </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walking Each Other Home </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offers solutions for everything from organizing a house to the legal documents needed when beginning the caregiving phase. It provides invaluable information for anyone caring for their elders from early home healthcare to hospice. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walking</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explains Ann-Marie's firsthand experience with various types of elder facilities including red flags to watch for in each of them. She shares intimate knowledge about how her family members were diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer's from the earliest signs of the disease and their progressions to how each family member died. In 2024 Ann-Marie was also diagnosed with COPD and Early Onset Alzheimer's so her hope is that </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Honoring</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will help her own family in their caregiving journey.  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walking</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> looks at the faith-driven steps it took for Ann-Marie to leave her Los Angeles home of over 35 years to move to a tiny East Texas town and care for her parents. Caregiving is not always easy nor is it for the faint of heart. Preparing for a loved one's ending is devastating enough but dementia/Alzheimer's disease can either cause someone to become violent like Ann-Marie's father or drift and fade through a gentle quiet storm like her mother. And whether considering caring for elders at home or placing in a facility the main theme throughout is God's 5</span><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th</sup><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Commandment: What is the best way I can honor and care for my parents? </span></p><p></p>