{"product_id":"to-the-last-dance-a-partners-story-of-living-and-loving-through-dementia-9781634895132","title":"To the Last Dance: A Partner's Story of Living and Loving through Dementia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Myrna Marofsky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Wise Ink\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Wise Ink\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Marriage \u0026amp; Long Term Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is another way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Myrna Marofsky's husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she made a decision that would define the next five years: \u003cb\u003eshe refused to let bad news become a bad life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Last Dance\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyrna calls it \u003cb\u003eCareLiving\u003c\/b\u003e Not caregiving - a word heavy with burden and obligation - but CareLiving: a mindset that asks two simple questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do you want to live each day?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHow do you want to feel in the end?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are walking alongside someone with dementia, this book will give you something most resources never offer: \u003cb\u003epermission to still have a life. Permission to still find joy. Permission to be kind to yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - Tia Newcomer, Former CEO of CaringBridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - G. Allen Power, MD, geriatrician and author of Dementia Beyond Disease\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor anyone on the other side of a dementia diagnosis - this is the book that was missing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wise Ink","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968237584535,"sku":"9781634895132","price":1360.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781634895132.webp?v=1782917225","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/to-the-last-dance-a-partners-story-of-living-and-loving-through-dementia-9781634895132","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}