Dementia Quotes

• The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Baby, Getting Older

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.183, Random House

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• 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, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

  Walter Mosley

  Struggle, Trying, Remember

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• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Sound, Way

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• You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

  Tan Le

  Alzheimer's, Data, One Day

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• 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. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Unique, People

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

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• Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

  David Perlmutter

  Cancer, Heart, Disease

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Live Well, Wells

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• Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

  Kevin Whately

  Alzheimer's, Needs, Done

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• There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Grief, Moving

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Stupid, Love Is, Long

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.399, Vintage

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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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• There will be many cases when researchers will need to look at data to come closer to a cure, in maybe five years, 10 years, 15 years. We can help make that data analysis easier. We can't let this wait. Dementia has potential to cripple our economy.

  Jordan Banks

  Waiting, Helping, Economy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.

  David Perlmutter

  Perspective, Brain, Way

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• My experience of people in dementia is that a lot of their personality, a lot of their knowledge, a lot of their experience is still there but there's not a direction connection that they can just reach out and get it and then bring it back.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Personality, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, People, Risk

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• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Men

  Jean Dubuffet, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1993). “Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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

  Bob DeMarco

  Villain, Persons

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• Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

  Peter Watts

  Wise, Intelligent, Analysis

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus

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• In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

  Michael Caine

  Getting Older, Opinion, Enough

  "Is Anybody There? - Sir Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I had the experience of having my grandmother in a nursing home at the end of her life, and had dementia set in with my father. He was in a nursing home with dementia at the end of his life, but it happened for me personally 10 years ago. My father was much older than my mother, so I experienced it as a pretty young person. People's parents die at various ages, but my father died of mortality. He died of being an old person. Illness and stuff happened, but essentially, he was old and he was going to die.

  Tamara Jenkins

  Mother, Father, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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• I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

  Blake Butler

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.

  Simon Callow

  Kings, Needs, Lear

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• Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

  Bill Crawford

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