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To the Last Dance: A Partner's Story of Living and Loving through Dementia
Paperback
Medical ReferenceAlzheimer's & DementiaRelationships
ISBN13: 9781634895132
Publisher: Wise Ink
Published: Mar 21 2025
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
You didn't sign up for this. The diagnosis changed everything - and now you're grieving someone who's still here, managing a disease no one prepared you for, and wondering how you're supposed to keep living while everything slowly slips away.
There is another way.
When Myrna Marofsky's husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she made a decision that would define the next five years: she refused to let bad news become a bad life.
To the Last Dance is not a caregiving manual. There are no checklists, no clinical stages, no instructions for managing decline. This is a love story - raw, honest, and deeply human - about what it looks like to choose presence over grief, connection over loss, and living over merely enduring.
Myrna calls it CareLiving Not caregiving - a word heavy with burden and obligation - but CareLiving: a mindset that asks two simple questions:
How do you want to live each day? How do you want to feel in the end?
Those questions became her compass through five years of Alzheimer's, from her husband Larry's early diagnosis to his death. They can become yours too.
If you are walking alongside someone with dementia, this book will give you something most resources never offer: permission to still have a life. Permission to still find joy. Permission to be kind to yourself.
Myrna Marofsky's starkly honest-and beautifully loving-account of caring for her husband through Alzheimer's will no doubt help others walking this challenging path. - Tia Newcomer, Former CEO of CaringBridge
A story of navigating a partner's life with dementia using love, dignity, and respect as guideposts - adapting to all that irrevocably changes, while embracing and celebrating all that endures. - G. Allen Power, MD, geriatrician and author of Dementia Beyond Disease
For anyone on the other side of a dementia diagnosis - this is the book that was missing.
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