{"product_id":"to-the-last-dance-a-partner-s-story-of-living-and-loving-through-dementia","title":"To the Last Dance: A Partner’s Story of Living and Loving through Dementia","description":"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.\nThere is another way.\nWhen 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.\nTo 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.\nMyrna calls it CareLiving Not caregiving — a word heavy with burden and obligation — but CareLiving: a mindset that asks two simple questions:\nHow do you want to live each day? How do you want to feel in the end?\nThose 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.\nIf 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.\n\"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\n\"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\nFor anyone on the other side of a dementia diagnosis — this is the book that was missing.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1634895134\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1634895134.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Marofsky, Myrna\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338512760893,"sku":"BVV.1634895134.G","price":8.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1634895134-0.jpg?v=1783924589","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/to-the-last-dance-a-partner-s-story-of-living-and-loving-through-dementia","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}