Top 35 Quotes About Elder Care
#1. Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.
Edward O. Wilson
#2. Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
Barbara Mikulski
#3. Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.
Jim Stanford
#4. We do not naturally care about people we don't know ... If we tried to feel sorry for every death, our little hearts would explode ... I don't have any physical reaction to the news. And there's no reason I should. I don't know them and the news has no effect on my life.
John Elder Robison
#5. Anybody messes with the girls, we'll take care of him right smart," the elder Wurm assured Ian. "It's not that hard," the other said honestly. "Break just one of them bastards' noses with a hoe handle and the rest of 'em settle right down.
Diana Gabaldon
#9. So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught - that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.
James Clavell
#10. Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
Pliny The Elder
#11. I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
Elinor Glyn
#12. Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.
Bruce Friedrich
#13. My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.
Nancy L. Kriseman
#14. Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete.
Charles Darwin
#15. Exercise is the best way to prevent Alzheimer. Rotate your arms; rotate your legs; twist your spine and activate your hippocampus to prevent Alzheimer.
Amit Ray
#17. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
Peggi Speers
#18. As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
#19. To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.
Tia Walker
#21. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Tia Walker
#22. In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods are everywhere
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.
Sarah Silverman
#24. Like I've told you before, Beverly, I don't care where we live as long as we're together." Vance ... "The Elder Effect
D.L. Given
#25. One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel 'dis-eased' in the caregiving process.
Nancy L. Kriseman
#26. Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Oscar Wilde
#27. While no one can change the outcome of dementia or Alzheimer's, with the right support you can change the journey.
Tara Reed
#28. Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.
Nancy L. Kriseman
#30. If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.
Scott Adams
#31. Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.
Hillel The Elder
#32. As your care recipient's advocate, be involved, don't accept the status quo, and don't be afraid to voice your concerns.
Nancy L. Kriseman
#33. Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Peggi Speers
#34. For the first time since hearing about the Treaty of Versailles in detail, Mondaugen found himself crying. They'll drain his juices, he thought; caress his bones with their paw-pads, gag on his fine white hair.
Anonymous
#35. I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.
Beth Gutcheon
