The Current23:23Facing Alzheimer’s, this couple still finds time to dance, and seize joy in the moment
When Sheree Fitch’s husband was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, she looked around for information to help them cope — but the negativity she found only increased her distress.
“[It was all] ‘Oh, this is a horrible disease, and it’s a nightmare and oh, you’re going to hate your spouse,'” said Fitch, the author best known for her children’s books Mabel Murple and Sleeping Dragons All Around.
“And I kept thinking, ‘No, no, there’s got to be a way that this can also be something
