Dementia Quotes

With a cancer patient, the person knows and is aware of a lot of the things going on. But in dementia patients, that is not the case. - Dr. Abhilash Desai

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

What we're trying to do is to see whether telehealth is an appropriate way to follow patients with dementia... The thing about dementia is once you've seen the patient and examined the patient neurologically, most of the followup is examining mental status, which we can do over telehealth. Talking to the patient and the family on how things are going and making some changes or suggestions, be it modifications in the environment or medication treatment for some of the behaviours?that works well over telehealth. - Andrew Kirk

What we showed is that for the surgery to be a risk factor, it has to be done before menopause. If before age 46 you remove two ovaries, you get a 70 percent increased risk of dementia. And we discovered that women who have only one ovary removed before age 38 -- this is a surgery more often done in younger women -- we see a 260 percent increase in dementia. That is quite a dramatic and somewhat unexpected finding. - Walter Rocca

We're not ready to write an exercise prescription for Alzheimer's or dementia yet. But the results are extremely exciting. - Carl Cotman

We recognize on going education for staff is essential. We provide monthly in-services for staff on issues and concerns related to dementia continuing to focus on person centered and resident directed care. We also utilize information on the Internet. There are many sites that have information about new research, preventative measures and early detection of Alzheimer's disease. - Judy Wheeler

We hope this untenable thesis of supposed madness or dementia does not impede the progress of the investigation and the passage of justice, because that would be a global embarrassment. - Carmen Hertz

We have, after all, an ageing population, and dementia is generally a condition of ageing, in that the risk increases with age. - Julie Bishop