What happens when the people who spent their lives taking care of you suddenly need you to take care of them?At thirty-eight years old, Travis Max Lowry found himself facing something he never expected: both of his parents living with dementia at the same time.His mother, Anita, was battling Alzheimer's disease. His father, Ken, was living with vascular dementia. And somewhere between wandering, hallucinations, medication battles, memory care, government programs, sleepless nights, and the constant fight to protect their dignity, Travis went from being their son to becoming their caregiver, advocate, investigator, and protector.Still Walking Together is the deeply personal story of that journey.But this isn't a book only about dementia.It's about a son trying to hold his family together while watching the two people who raised him slowly change. It's about nearly fifty years of marriage and a love that dementia still hasn't managed to erase. It's about fear, anger, guilt, exhaustion, dark humor, ridiculous moments, dogs, motorcycles, a $120 brisket, and the small flashes of normal life that somehow become more precious than ever.Travis doesn't tell this story as an expert looking back from a safe distance. He tells it as a son still living it-sometimes angry, sometimes exhausted, sometimes laughing at things he probably shouldn't, but still showing up.Part memoir and part hard-earned caregiver guide, Still Walking Together also shares the lessons Travis wishes someone had given him when dementia first entered his family's life.This is a story about Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia.But more than anything, it's a story about family, dignity, advocacy, grief, resilience, and what remains when memory begins to disappear.Because even when the memories fade, love has a way of remembering the way home.
