“ Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.-- Dementia Patient Rose in The Inspired Caregiver Peggi Speer and Tia Walker
“ The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Lao Tzu
“ I guess she was a life line Sewing our family fabric togetherFrom me to dad to herGave me a sense of continuity Especially when my daughter was bornAs she was slipping away Richard L. Ratliff
“ 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
“ Those whose lives have been an exercise in the pitting of their wits, or the selling of their talents, time and strength, to those who pay the piper, can even in their old age, even with their wits pa… Norah Houlton
“ 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 o… Anne Carson
“ Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know what I’ll do without a job. Pat Summitt
“ What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories… Andrea Lochen
“ She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most races live, and with the inviolable, unquestioned certainty found in dementia. There were references… Darrell Drake
“ Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived. Janet Turpin Myers
“ 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.… Judy Cornish
“ Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.--Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver Peggi Speers
“ Last Comforts” was born when one nagging question kept arising early in my journey as a hospice volunteer. Why were people coming into hospice care so late in the course of their illness? That questio… Ellen Rand
“ Many caregivers share that they often feel alone, isolated, and unappreciated. Mindfulness can offer renewed hope for finding support and value for your role as a caregiver…It is an approach that ever… Nancy L. Kriseman
“ 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 e… Judy Cornish
“ Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is consequential because frequent release of cortiso… Dan Harris
