Together, these two books offer what most resources never do — truths about living and loving alongside dementia.
Myrna Marofsky writes from the inside of that experience, with compassion and hard-won wisdom about what it means to keep living while someone you love is slipping away.
To the Last Dance: A Partner's Story of Living and Loving Through Dementia
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.
“Because there were no books out there to help me, I wrote my own. I wasn't perfect, but oh, how I tried.” These books are honest, true, and hopefully inspiring. They might even put a smile on your face or say out loud, “I’m not alone.”
When Myrna Marofsky's husband Larry was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she faced the same moment every care partner faces — the one where bad news threatens to become a bad life. To the Last Dance is the book she wishes she'd had. Raw, honest, and deeply human, it follows five years of loving someone through dementia — refusing to let the diagnosis define their life together or silence the joy still possible within it. This is not a guide to managing decline. It is a love story about choosing presence over grief, connection over loss, and living over merely enduring.
At its heart is a deceptively simple idea Myrna calls CareLiving — the belief that caregiving doesn't have to feel like a burden if you approach it as an intentional choice. Her story rejects the tragedy talk that surrounds dementia and replaces it with something more honest and more hopeful: that possibilities exist even in the darkest times, and that how you choose to live each day is still yours to decide. Readers often say it affirms what they were already thinking but couldn't find the words for.
Woven throughout are insights her readers call Myrnaisms — wisdom earned not in theory but through lived experience — that inspire others to find their own way through with grace, intention, and no regrets.
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CareLiving: A Companion's Guide for Living Alongside Dementia
CareLiving: A Companion's Guide for Living Alongside Dementia was written for the spouse, the daughter, the son, the partner who is caring for a loved one diagnosed with dementia, Alzheimer's or any cognitive impairment. Not a manual, not a checklist — and not another burden. This is a short, honest companion you can read in a couple of hours, or open to any page when you need it most.
CareLiving walks through what most guides never say out loud: the denial that protects your heart, the doubt that follows every decision, the guilt of feeling angry at someone you love, the isolation of doing things no one will ever praise you for, and the grief of losing someone who is still here.
It won't tell you what to do. Instead, it will spark your thinking — about how you want to live intentionally, how to be there for your loved one without losing yourself, and what it means to be genuinely kind to yourself during one of life's hardest chapters.
It’s called a Guide because each section contains wisdom, words of reality and CareLiving Reflections with quiet questions and real voices from care partners who have been exactly where you are. Open it when you need it. It will meet you there.
The cover reveals the story.
Hear Myrna explain.