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. Together, these books offer what most resources never do: truths about living and loving alongside dementia.
To the Last Dance
A Partner’s Story of Living and Loving Through Dementia
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.
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.
“It is a beautifully written book about life, a love story, and how to frame each day for success.” Verified Amazon reviewer
CareLiving
A Companion’s Guide for Living Alongside Dementia
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.
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.
By Myrna Marofsky and Joshua Wert.
“Anyone facing care for a loved one, with dementia or others, can benefit from CareLiving.” Verified Amazon reviewer
The CareLiving Journal
A Place for Your Own Words
Some things are too heavy to say out loud, even to the people who love you. The CareLiving Journal gives you a private place to set them down.
Each section follows a part of CareLiving: A Companion’s Guide for Living Alongside Dementia. The prompts offer a few ways in, from a few quiet words to deeper reflection, so you can go as far as feels right that day. Write after you read, write on the hard days, or simply open to a page when you need to hear yourself think.
Use it on its own, alongside the book, or with a CareLiving Conversations group, where the journal is where the conversation becomes personal.
“I find myself returning to these pages when I have a minute and a lot on my mind.” Verified buyer
Only at myrnamarofsky.com: the CareLiving Gift Bundle, CareLiving and The CareLiving Journal together, tied with a gold ribbon and ready to give. $15 plus $6 shipping.