Dementia Quotes - Page 2

• Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.

  Jerry Lewis

  Pain, Wonderful, Adrenaline

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• I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine my work with this commitment to helping dementia? One of the myths is that it's an older person's disease. We're seeing early onset dementia among people at 45. It's the disease of everybody.

  Jordan Banks

  Commitment, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Powerful, Play, Drug

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Alzheimer's, Promise, Remember

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• We're thinking about how we can use Facebook as an early indicator of dementia. Family and friends can see how, for example, the person is talking about a journey they didn't go on or having lunch with a friend they didn't have lunch with. Can we use those as early alerts that maybe the person should see a doctor? The most important thing is early diagnosis.

  Jordan Banks

  Journey, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.

  Richard Eyre

  Pain, Grief, Character

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• Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.

  Norman Doidge

  Reading, Health, Games

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• Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer’s. (254)

  Norman Doidge

  Moving, Reading, Games

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.254, Penguin

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• Dementia was like a truth serum.

  Amy Tan

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.218, Penguin

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• They say 'life is precious'. To who? To you, when you're young and you've got a few dollars in your pocket. Tell that to the 90-year-old lying awake at the graveyard shift in the nursing home, groaning with dementia. The only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he hasn't figured out a way he can do it with pudding.

  Doug Stanhope

  Lying, Home, Nursing

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• Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer.

  Liz Miller

  Cancer, Heart, Blood

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Thinking, Alzheimer's

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• There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Mean, Mad

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

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• Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.

  Julie Bishop

  World, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

  John Berryman

  Cancer, Thinking, Faces

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• As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sports, Football, Suicide

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• King Lear by William Shakespeare frightens me. I've never done King Lear, I guess partially because my father dwindled into dementia in his last years and King Lear is such an accurate portrayal of a father figure suffering from dementia - the play was almost intolerable for me.

  Gregory Doran

  Father, Suffering, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Believe, Heart

  "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

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• Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Autism, Disease, Way

  "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.

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• My mother was wonderfully out about her dementia. She would sort of - she would say to me, I came out to the window cleaner about having dementia. You know, I love the way that verb for coming out of the closet has now become so socially useful for all sorts of situations, like when you need to explain to the window cleaner that you don't know if you paid him or not.

  Emma Donoghue

  Mother, Window, Situation

  "Emma Donoghue Helps Kids Deal With Dementia (And Still Has Fun) In 'The Lotterys'". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, krcu.org. March 27, 2017.

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• I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

  Carey Mulligan

  Grandmother, Alzheimer's, People

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• I'm always very excited about trying to do something on next-generation biotechnology and life sciences because I think if we can cure cancer or dementia, we can really make the future a lot better and I think these things are eminently doable.

  Peter Thiel

  Cancer, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As one ages, your brain shrinks. And how much it shrinks, and where it shrinks, relates to conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.

  Don Ihde

  Scary, Brain, Age

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

  Julie Bishop

  Australia, Leader, Research

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

  Julie Bishop

  Support, Challenges, Prevention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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