Alzheimer's Quotes - Page 3

• With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

  Nancy Reagan

  Alzheimer's, Bed, Patient

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• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

  Jane Wagner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

  Julianne Moore

  Alzheimer's, People, Cures

  "The Oscars". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• 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, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Names, People

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• Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Men, Alzheimer's

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.76, University of Texas Press

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• I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

  Melody Beattie

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Years

  Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• 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 do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• 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

  Mother, Alzheimer's, Disease

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• We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

  Studs Terkel

  Country, Memories, Alzheimer's

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.

  Robert Lanza

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Disease

  "Company behind the clones: Advanced Cell Technology" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 25, 2001.

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• If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Attention, Losing

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• Alzheimer's usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.

  Mason Cooley

  Alzheimer's, Progress, Aids

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• 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 those who love us.

  P. D. James

  Alzheimer's, Tragedy, Disease

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.240, Vintage

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Cancer, Responsibility

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Researchers and biotech executives foresee the day when the effects of many catastrophic diseases can be reversed. The damaged brains of Alzheimer's disease patients may be restored. Severed spinal cords may be rejoined. Damaged organs may be rebuilt. Stem cells provide hope that this dream will become a reality.

  George Woolf

  Dream, Reality, Alzheimer's

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• I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.

  Patti Davis

  Struggle, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?

  Patti Davis

  Father, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Imagination

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• I do know people and there are people in my family who have had Alzheimer's and dementia, and I appreciate the importance of communication and having contact with them. Communicating is an interesting thing with a condition like that. Sometimes it's difficult to communicate. If the brain becomes atrophied or certain channels of the brain become atrophied, then contact is what becomes really important.

  Elliott Gould

  Communication, Alzheimer's, People

  "Elliott Gould on throwing his lunch at Robert Altman and Saturday Night Live's Five-Timers Club". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Alzheimer's, Epidemics, Years

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• I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, People, Brain

  "'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him". www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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• Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

  Maureen Lipman

  Alzheimer's, Forget, Grudge

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• Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Fall, Mean

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• I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Home, Ipods

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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