Dementia Quote by Amy Tan

Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even…

— Laurie Graham

“…wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a…

— Jonathan Miles

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique.…

— Carey Mulligan

That's the worst thing about dementia: it gets you every time. Sufferers look and act the same but beneath the familiar exterior something quite…

— Carol Thatcher

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 forgot the…

— Jerry Lewis

“The dominant narrative is a horror story. People with Alzheimer's are perceived as zombies, bodies without minds, waiting for valiant researchers to find a…

— Dana Walrath

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can…

— Jane Smiley

When someone has dementia you just have to inhabit their parallel universe with them. There is nothing to be gained from challenging their take…

— Angela Rippon

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

— Thom Yorke

Above all, Alzheimer wanted the medical world to recognize that mental illnesses have an undeniable material component. There was an obvious political reason for…

— Margaret M. Lock

“People with dementia cannot remember that they have asked a question repeatedly, but they are quite capable of understanding that they are being criticized…

— Jennifer Ghent-Fuller