Dementia Quotes
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
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.
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.
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.
In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.
I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
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.
In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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.
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.
When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.
Violet unwrapped everything old as if it were a ribboned gift given to her by the Gods.
I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away
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)
My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.
She’d forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara’s mother, who had dementia)
You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.
By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.
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.
Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver
Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.
I love you but I got to love me more.
Shut your mouth - there's a bus coming.
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.
Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver
Caregiving will never be one-size-fits-all.