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
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
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
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
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
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
King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in… — Gregory Doran Copy Share Image
There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Grietje showed me a photograph of the “Beach Room” at the Happy Days Nursing Home. (A name like that always makes me… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. .… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce 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
“…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
“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
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
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
In my experience, there are good days and bad days when caring for someone with a memory-impairment condition such as dementia, but… — Angela Rippon 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
I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have… — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We're thinking about how we can use Facebook as an early indicator of dementia. Family and friends can see how, for example,… — Jordan Banks Copy Share Image
“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Bruce Miller, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, studies elderly patients with a relatively common form of brain disease… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for… — Judy Parfitt Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
