Dementia Family Quotes & Sayings

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

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. — Henry Miller

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible. — Hayden Panettiere

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college ... I did other things. — Jackie Kennedy

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. — Antonio Porchia

Just an ordinary day. "And then - gone. — Joan Didion

But I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around - while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia. — Jim Butcher

My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too. — Gerry Anderson

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

I think we all have a role to play in life. — Jimmy Cliff

Dementia is not merely an individual disease; it affects the entire family. — Dora Leigh

Don't foist your body image issues on me, mate. I'm sexy. When I want a six pack, I go to the liquor store. — R.K. Lilley

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

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love. — Cecelia Ahern

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

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener. — Jeremy Taylor

family member with dementia was pleased and satisfied — Jennifer Ghent-Fuller

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer? — Ahmed Yassin

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