Alzheimer S Quotes

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

~ Nicholas Sparks

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

~ Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

We have to watch Nana's life slipping away from her like a forgotten word. I thought I understood what's happening to her, but this isn't like being robbed a penny at a time. Memories aren't currency to spend; they're us. Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

~ Nancy L. Kriseman

My caregiver mantra is to remember 'The only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

~ Nancy L. Kriseman

One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel ‘dis-eased’ in the caregiving process.

~ Nancy L. Kriseman

My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

~ Nancy L. Kriseman

As your care recipient’s advocate, be involved, don’t accept the status quo, and don’t be afraid to voice your concerns.

~ Nancy L. Kriseman

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

~ William Shakespeare

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

I love you but I got to love me more.

~ Peggi Speers

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.

~ Peggi Speers

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

~ Anne Lamott

She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.

~ Debra Dean

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver

~ Peggi Speers

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

~ Tia Walker