Alzheimer Quotes

“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“And I don’t think you need to be scared of forgetting me,” the boy says
“No?”
“No. Because if you forget me then you’ll just get the chance to get to know me again. And you’ll like that, because I’m actually a pretty cool person to get to know.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“ولأن الإنسان منذ طفولته يرى والدَيْه في صورة الأقوياء القادرين على مواجهة مصاعب الحياة، فإن رؤية الضعف الذي يستنزفهما بالتدريج تكون أصعب من رؤية ذلك يحدث للآخرين”
― Arno Geiger, Der alte König in seinem Exil

“If ever the day comes when he wakes beside me and my name doesn't come to his lips, when that bewildered look in his eyes doesn't fade away, I'll remember for us both. I won't let him forget the life we built together. I won't let him go.”
― J.M. Snyder, Henry and Jim

“The phrase 'Love one another' is so wise. By loving one another, we invest in each other and in ourselves. Perhaps someday, when we need someone to care for us, it may not come from the person we expect, but from the person we least expect. It may be our sons or daughter-in-laws, our neighbors, friends, cousins, stepchildren, or stepparents whose love for us has assigned them to the honorable, yet dangerous position of caregiver.”
― Peggi Speers, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“أكبر هَمٍّ يمكن للكِبَرأن يصيبنا به هو أن يطول أمده أكثر مما نحتمل”
― Arno Geiger, Der alte König in seinem Exil

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.”
― Lao Tzu

“If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.”
― Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

“Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.

If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“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, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver”
― Peggi Speer and Tia Walker

“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall.
The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period.
The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.”
― Steven Magee

“Es una leche es el alzheimer. Porque si a la vez que ellos se olvidan de ti, tú pudieras olvidarte de ellos, pues aún. Pero desde que ella vive sin acordarse de nada, a mí me está pasando lo contrario, me acuerdo el doble, de todo, de cosas que hacía tiempo que tenía olvidadas. Por las noches sobre todo, revivo cosas con ella cuando éramos pequeñas, mías, de nuestros padres. Es como si las historias saltaran de su cabeza a la mía.”
― Núria Gago, Quiéreme siempre

“Hélène m’a raconté toute sa vie. Tout mais en puzzle. Comme si elle m’avait fait cadeau du plus bel objet de sa maison, mais qu’elle l’avait cassé en mille morceaux avant, sans le faire exprès.”
― Valérie Perrin, Les Oubliés du dimanche

“If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused...”
― Deyth Banger

“Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall.

The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period.

The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not.”
― Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home

“Rebeca había olvidado todo lo que había dicho a sus hijos, pero ellos lo recordaban con tanta precisión que había ocasiones en las que todo parecía como antes y la memoria de los buenos tiempos se hacía nítida y concluyente.”
― Enrique Serrano, Donde no te conozcan

“Schizophrenia means difficulty in comprehending Reality”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Gota a gota, se van las palabras que tanta compañía me han hecho siempre. ¿Adónde? No lo sé. Quiero pensar que viajan hasta el cerebro de un recién nacido, a quien acompañarán hasta su vejez. Porque las palabras no se pueden perder.”
― Pilar Navarro Colorado, Dime tu nombre, mujer

“El alzhéimer no se va. Siempre se queda contigo, agazapado como un ladrón que te roba los recuerdos, la vida, cuando menos te lo esperas. Que te convierte en un fantasma o, lo que es peor, que convierte a tus seres queridos en seres irreconocibles para tus mismos ojos. Que te enfrenta a un reflejo desconocido ante el espejo. No, el alzhéimer no desaparece: te hace desaparecer.”
― Josh T. Baker, La vida secreta de Sarah Brooks

“Barry, júrame que no dejarás que te olvide, que nos olvide. ¡Júramelo!”
― Josh T. Baker, La vida secreta de Sarah Brooks

“Ma siamo fragilissimi e tutto può finire in un momento e allora un nuovo nuovissimo equilibrio si ricomone, su quel che conta, l'emozione che ci rende ancora felici, la coccola, l'aggiustamento del mondo al nuovo mondo che nasce”
― Mariapia Veladiano, Adesso che sei qui

“L'esordio non è quando la malattia si manifesta al mondo. È quando il mondo la vede. Si rassegna a vederla dopo averle negato in corsa l'esistenza.”
― Mariapia Veladiano, Adesso che sei qui

“Qui sait à quoi il pense toute la journée, assis sur sa chaise, comme un nouveau-né sans défense.”
― Francesca Melandri

“Elke dag herhaal ik het wonder, wat zeg ik, de triomf, van het moment waarop onze soort het schrift uitvond. Lezen en schrijven, we doen het op den duur zo gedachteloos. Altijd weer het vingervlugge mirakel van ons geheugen dat zich woord voor woord; lettergreep na lettergreep, de totaal willekeurige maar o zo zegenrijke band herinnert tussen een letter en een klank, en wat die verbintenis betekent. Telkens weer die schepping van zin uit een ontstellende ruis die zonder het oor van de ander zonder boodschap zou blijven… En dat mirakel , die dagdagelijkse ontploffing in betekenis, knettert en vonkt terug in de tijd, naar de havens van de Feniciërs, naar de koningen van Sumer, naar de glazuren tegels van de toren van Babel, verspreid in het zand.”
― Erwin Mortier, Gestameld liedboek: Moedergetijden

“Wat me nog het meest bij haar opvalt, wat me de meeste treurnis bezorgt, dat is de dubbele stilte van haar zijn. De taal heeft de koffers gepakt en is over de reling van het kapseizende schip gesprongen, maar er heerst ook een andere stilte in haar of rond haar. Ik hoor de muziek van haar ziel niet meer; de existentiële aura om haar heen, dat hele vibrerende laken van narratieven en symbolieken waarmee ze zichzelf in de wereld heeft geweven ― of omgekeerd, de wereld in haar.”
― Erwin Mortier