174 Quotes About Alzheimers

If you knew you were going to lose your memorybut you could choose five things you’d never forget, what would they be—a certain face, a taste, a scent,a touch; how deepin this, the middle of your life?

The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.

So about an hour later we are in the taxishooting along empty country roads towards town.The April light is clear as an alarm.As we pass them it gives a sudden sense of every objectexisting in space on its own shadow.I wish I could carry this clarity with meinto the hospital where distinctions tend to flatten and coalesce.I wish I had been nicer to him before he got crazy.These are my two wishes.

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

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

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

The reason I might forget something is because my mind is like a computer. I have so much useless stuff stored up in there, that when I forget to clean out my Mind's Cache, it has no room for new information. Like wearing pants!

If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.