Jerry Lewis Quotes

When you become senile, you won't know it.

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

I originally got very interested in memory in high school when my grandmother came to live with us. She had been diagnosed with dementia. It was the first time I had heard the word 'Alzheimer's disease.'

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I'm hoping I don't get Alzheimer's.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

There is a version of Alzheimer's which is early onset Alzheimer's. And it's - it's horrible, because people do get it in their 50s and 60s. And it's terrible.

My memory's pretty much gone.

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?