Alzheimer Quote by Bob DeMarco

When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

— Bob DeMarco

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us,…

— Terry Pratchett

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against…

— P. D. James

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a…

— Charlie Pierce

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are…

— Bob DeMarco

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable…

— Susan Sontag

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

“It’s our memories and experiences that make us who we are. Alzheimer’s rips away what defines a person piece by piece. There’s nothing good…

— Robin Perini

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

— Leeza Gibbons

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it…

— Paul Rusesabagina