#dementia

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#deal #dementia #experiencing #forget #how

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

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?' ↗

— Pat Summitt

#hate #his way #i #me #sound

[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details from separate experiences weave together, so that the rememberer thinks of them as having happened together. The actual year or season or time of day shifts to a different one. Many details are lost, usually in ways that serve the self in its present situation, not the self of ten or twenty or forty years ago when the remembered event took place. And even the fresh memory, the 'original,' is not reliable in a documentary sense....Memory, in short, is not a record of the past but an evolving myth of understanding the psyche spins from its engagement with the world. ↗

— John Daniel

#memoir #memory #design

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#developed #developed world #exclusively #problem #world