Character Quote by Carey Mulligan

My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is…

— Walter Mosley

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 deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely,…

— Walter Mosley

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

“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

I think it's important that anyone suffering from dementia that they get some human contact.

— Naughty Boy

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

There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

— Kevin Whately

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it…

— Phyllis Logan

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it might like…

— Emma Healey