Age Quote by Tony Robinson

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this…

— Paul Coffey

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

My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too.

— Gerry Anderson

I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with…

— Tamara Jenkins

I had so many people in my family with dementia that it felt like it belonged to me in a way. I feel like…

— Emma Healey

My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more…

— Pam Ferris

I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia.…

— Anthony Doerr

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

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

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

— Kevin Whately

I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.

— Vivek Ramaswamy

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible…

— Bonnie Tyler