The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that… — Kevin Whately Copy Share Image
“researchers (with Ph.D.’s). “It turns out that if you get dementia, you’ll get it later, but you’ll also progress a little bit… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with… — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will… — Jeanne Phillips Copy Share Image
When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing in Alzheimer's disease to remember, and we remember this all the time at Axovant, is we don't fully understand the… — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
“Some residents will scoot back inside their rooms, because they think dementia is contagious. Or maybe it’s not, but you never know.… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
“She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“Alzheimer’s disease is caused by the accumulation in the brain of sticky synapse-destroying plaques made of a piece of a protein called… — Dale Bredesen Copy Share Image
“Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We… — Peggi Speers Copy Share Image
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“How's Mother?" "In and out." As I said it I wondered which was the bad way: in or out? Was she lost… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“a man in California who can track whether his father with Alzheimer’s disease, who lives in a nursing home in the United… — Bertalan Mesko Copy Share Image
I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know,… — Miles D. White Copy Share Image
“…wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they've gone -… — Judy Parfitt Copy Share Image
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“You believe that some people have dementia and some people do not, but that is not correct. All people have dementia—some are… — Hiroshi Yamamoto Copy Share Image
My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Mum died on a Saturday - apparently that's quite common. Dad already had dementia, and my brother and I had to let… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once… — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There will be many cases when researchers will need to look at data to come closer to a cure, in maybe five… — Jordan Banks Copy Share Image
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's,… — David H. Murdock Copy Share Image
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When I got off the train back home, I saw the WHITE and COLORED signs that had been there all along, as… — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
There is a version of Alzheimer's which is early onset Alzheimer's. And it's - it's horrible, because people do get it in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
