Quotation

From Alice's opening plenary presentation in the annual Dementia Care Conference: I’m losing my yesterdays. If you ask me what I did yesterday, what happened, what I saw and felt and heard, I’d be hard-pressed to give you details. And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. I often fear tomorrow. What if I wake up and don’t know who my husband is? Being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s is like being branded with a scarlet A. “I’d like to encourage earlier diagnosis, for physicians not to assume that people in their forties and fifties experiencing memory and cognition problems are depressed or stressed or menopausal. “My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I’ll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech.