A Conference on Caregiving

Christian author and caregiver Rundy Purdy will be appearing at The Solid Ground Coffee to share his experience with caregiving. When Rundy was 24, he began accompanying his grandparents on a journey through their last years of illness and failing health with their inevitable losses. He recounts his years adventuring through bedtime stories and bathroom struggles and a shared love that stretched across the wide sea of caregiving—a season with memories of closeness but also a struggle through strained relationships and the emotional and spiritual brokenness revealed in the hardness.

Rundy spent eight years providing daily elder care to his two grandparents. His grandfather faced the struggle of Alzheimer’s and his grandmother the journey through heart failure. Caring for them through these difficult years made a deep impact on Rundy and created a desire to help others through the grueling, but rewarding, experience of caregiving. After his personal caregiving journey ended, Rundy wrote the book The Sea is Wide: A Memoir of Caregiving which chronicles the Alzheimer’s journey with compassion, hope, and a strong dose of gritty realism. Since the book’s publication, Rundy has spoken around the country, shedding light on caregiving and helping others on their own journeys.