“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
“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable,… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how… — Phyllis Logan 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
Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,… — Jodi Picoult 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
“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
My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“He sits, silent, no longer mistaking the cable news for company— and when he talks, he talks of childhood, remembering some slight… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“When someone you love has dementia, you too experience a form of anticipatory grief, but yours may extend over a longer period… — Wolfelt PhD CT Copy Share Image
None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common. — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia. — Ezekiel Emanuel 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
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
“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus 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
The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
