Top 100 Quotes About Dementia
#1. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot
#2. Shawn rested his head against the seat then turned to talk to Sarah. "It's your birthday tomorrow." "Ruby Tuesday's thought it was three months ago." "Ruby Tuesday's has a touch of dementia.
Nina Post
#3. Nurse, if she didn't have more money than any person ought to have, you might be tempted to call it senile dementia. As it is, she is in for a rest and a check-up.
Robert A. Heinlein
#4. Adrenaline is wonderful. It covers pain. It covers dementia. It covers everything.
Jerry Lewis
#5. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.
Andrea Lochen
#6. 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
#7. A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'
Tina Fey
#8. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
#9. For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.
Liz Kessler
#10. 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
#11. If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
Phyllis Logan
#12. Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.
Walter Kirn
#13. Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.
Pat Summitt
#14. A dementia-friendly society is not yet in reach.
Meryl Comer
#15. He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#16. Recent studies show that people who exercise their minds with stimulating activities throughout their entire lives have a 35-40 percent less chance of developing symptoms of dementia.
Mike Rabe
#17. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
Janet Turpin Myers
#19. 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 person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.
David Perlmutter
#20. Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.'
Simon Callow
#21. With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
Kevin Whately
#22. While no one can change the outcome of dementia or Alzheimer's, with the right support you can change the journey.
Tara Reed
#23. You believe that some people have dementia and some people do not, but that is not correct. All people have dementia - some are simply in worse condition than others. After all, most people with dementia are unaware that anything is wrong with them.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#24. I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Floyd Skloot
#25. strategic dementia is a loss of the ability to make rational business decisions because you are not sure of your strategy.
Christopher Surdak
#26. Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.
Terry Pratchett
#27. Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
Julie Bishop
#28. dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, with its own innovative genius.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#29. We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.
James Nesbitt
#30. When our expectations match our companion's capabilities, there is less stress for both parties. This is the secret to improving the dementia caregiving experience.
Judy Cornish
#31. Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
Floyd Skloot
#32. And while a bald head and a looped ribbon were seen as badges of courage and hope, her reluctant vocabulary and vanishing memories advertised mental instability and impending insanity. Those with cancer could expect to be supported by their community. Alice expected to be an outcast.
Lisa Genova
#33. It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)
Michael Zadoorian
#34. There are moments in your life that you will remember forever, no matter how bad your recall, no matter how deep you sink into dementia.
Anna Jarzab
#35. The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.
Laurie Graham
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
Joel Fuhrman
#39. Our best medical journals are now brimming with high-profile, rigorous studies that show a stunning correlation between high blood sugar and risk for dementia.
David Perlmutter
#40. Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!
Barry Lyga
#41. Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.
Bill Crawford
#42. Dementia. Ruth puzzled over the diagnosis: How could such a beautiful-sounding word apply to such a destructive disease? It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.
Amy Tan
#43. Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#44. My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
Laurie Graham
#45. I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?
Rainbow Rowell
#46. I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Laurie Graham
#47. Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
Laurie Graham
#48. I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
Gave me a sense of continuity
Especially when my daughter was born
As she was slipping away
Richard L. Ratliff
#49. He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
Barbara Kingsolver
#50. Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
Joyce Rachelle
#51. My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
Paul Coffey
#52. Players grunt, coaches yell, and pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early-onset dementia.
Nate Jackson
#53. Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would
Jane E. Mengesha
#54. A dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#55. Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.
Bryant McGill
#56. It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words.
Paul Kalanithi
#57. The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Walker Percy
#58. More word salad. Even when he seems just fine, the dementia simmers underneath, waiting to burst out.
Lindsay Eagar
#59. That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can usually talk to them, have a laugh every now and then - the person is still with you. With dementia, there's no conversation; there's no togetherness, no sharing.
Judy Parfitt
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.
Judy Parfitt
#63. My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.
Rose George
#64. I am daily learning
To be the reluctant guardian of your memories
There was light in those eyes; I miss that
Richard L. Ratliff
#65. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2013, even slight elevations of blood sugar that are far below the diabetes range have been shown to significantly increase the risk for the development of untreatable dementia.7
David Perlmutter
#66. At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
Floyd Skloot
#67. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Tia Walker
#68. Her eyes are the first indication of her infirmity, or rather that she resides in more than one world. (Dementia)
Stephanie Kallos
#69. Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.
Eoin Colfer
#70. 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
#71. She almost thought she'd said the words aloud, but she hadn't. They remained trapped in her head, but not because they were barricaded by plaques and tangles. She just couldn't say them aloud
Lisa Genova
#72. It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.
Craig Johnson
#73. 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
#74. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.
Cormac McCarthy
#75. She'd forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara's mother, who had dementia)
Louise Penny
#76. You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
T.A. Sorensen
#77. The childlike sense of wonder that we had as children, the sense that there is adventure in each activity, is partly what gave us such strong memories when we were young - it's not that we're slipping into dementia.
Daniel J. Levitin
#78. My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.
Laurie Graham
#79. 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
#80. Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
David Perlmutter
#81. I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory.
Bill Cosby
#82. I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles Bukowski
#83. Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.
Haruki Murakami
#84. 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
#85. Low levels of vitamin D in older people can double the risk of developing dementia in later life, according to one of the biggest studies of its kind into the nutritional supplement.
Anonymous
#87. My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too.
Gerry Anderson
#88. it seemed to her that she had acquired not virtues but a form of dementia
Doris Lessing
#89. Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before.
He knows who I am. He knows that I am the one person who he loves, has always loved. No disease, no person can take that away.
(p.205)
Michael Zadoorian
#90. Dementia is not merely an individual disease; it affects the entire family.
Dora Leigh
#92. It was both manic and mesmerizing, it was controlled chaos and detailed dementia.
Amy Harmon
#93. ... wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can change, nothing can be rewritten, no one can leave.
Jonathan Miles
#94. 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
#95. None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.
Laurie Graham
#96. A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
Erykah Badu
#97. 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
#98. Dementia was like a truth serum.
Amy Tan
#99. I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.
David H. Murdock
#100. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
Peggi Speers
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