Alzheimer’s Quotes for Patients, Families, & Caregivers (2024)

Looking for quotes about Alzheimer’s? We have rounded up some of the best quotes collection of Alzheimers quotes, sayings, captions, poems, messages, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to empathize with people dealing from Alzheimer disease and give them strength in the enduring times.

Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disorder that takes away memory and eventually the ability to do basic tasks. It’s a very sad, heartbreaking and helpless condition to see your loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and see his/her world turn upside down.

Feeling your own memories slip away or watching a friend or family member go further and further into the disease can leave you feeling alone. These inspirational Alzheimer’s quotes by people living with the disease, caregivers, or their loved ones might uplift your spirits and encourage you to deal with the situation with more wisdom and patience.

World Alzheimer’s Day is observed on September 21st each year. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness about Alzheimer’s disease, educating the public, and supporting those affected by the condition, including patients, families, and caregivers.

The following sayings capture the complexities of Alzheimer’s—its pain, its challenges, and the enduring strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

Top 10 Alzheimer’s Quotes

  1. “Alzheimer’s caregivers are heroes.”— Leeza Gibbons
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    Alzheimer’s Disease Quotes

  2. “We remember their love when they can no longer remember.”
    Alzheimer's Quotes
    Alzheimer’s Quotes

  3. “Man’s memory shapes its own Eden within.” — Jorge Luis Borges

  4. Dementia care—it’s not rocket science, it’s heart science.” — Gail Weatherill

  5. “Even If I can’t cure, I can still care.” — Sally P. Karioth RN, PhD

  6. Alzheimer’s is not just a disease of the mind, it’s a disease of the heart. – Dementia Advocate

  7.  “They may not be able to remember who we are but they feel us just the same.” — Amanda Dillion
    Alzheimer Quotes
    Alzheimer Quotes

  8. “To put it simply our brain span should match our lifespan.” Meryl Comer

  9. “Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it.”— Joey Comeau
    Alzheimer Quotes Inspirational
    Alzheimer Quotes Inspirational

  10. “If you want to avoid Alzheimer’s disease, sleep 8 hours a night.”— Deepak Chopra

Best Alzheimer’s Disease Quotes for Inspiration

  1. “One of the hardest things you will ever have to do, my dear, is to grieve the loss of a person who is still alive.” — Unknown

  2. Although your loved one may not remember you or might do things that frustrate you, this is the time when he or she needs you the most. — Angie Nunez Merryman
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    Alzheimer quotes mom

  3. “Though those with Alzheimer’s might forget us, we as a society must remember them.”
    Loving Someone WIth Alzheimer's Quotes
    Loving Someone WIth Alzheimer’s Quotes

  4. “People with Alzheimer’s deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!”— Julianne Moore

  5. “The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart’s memory but love itself?” ― Twan Eng Tan, The Gift of Rain

  6. “Alzheimer’s is a journey, not just for the patient, but for the entire family.” ― Unknown

  7. “Alzheimer’s might erase memories, but it cannot erase the love that was shared.” ― Unknown

  8. “Alzheimer’s doesn’t erase the person you were; it just makes it harder to remember.” – Gerald Everette

  9. “The soul of a person with Alzheimer’s may forget, but their spirit never will.” – Grace Noyes

  10. “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Quotes for Alzheimer’s Caregivers

  1. “Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Socrates

  2. “Dementia: a thief of time, leaving traces of a life behind.” — Abhishek. J

  3. “Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible.” — Tia Walker

  4. “To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”— Tia Walker

  5. “Alzheimer’s disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.”— Patti Davis

  6. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ― Desmond Tutu

  7. “We’re really a composite of our life experiences – memory layered upon memory and Alzheimer’s steals that away.” — Meryl Comer
    Quotes About Alzheimer
    Quotes About Alzheimer

  8. “The person who has Alzheimer’s knows that pieces of the puzzle are missing, and they are terrified.”—
    Alzheimer's Quotes For Family
    Alzheimer’s Quotes For Family

  9. Alzheimer’s is one of the cleverest thief, because she not only steals from you, but she steals the very thing you need to remember what’s been stolen. — Jaord Kintz
    Alzheimer's Sayings
    Alzheimer’s Sayings

  10. “The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.”— Terry Pratchett

  11. “I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.”— Terry Pratchett

  12. “At the moment I’m just falling, falling…just falling as it were, I think of things and then they go away forever.”

  13. “Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.”— George Carlin

  14. “To love a person is to learn the song in their heart, and sing it to them when they have forgotten.” — Arne Garborg
    Alzheimer's Quotes For Caregivers
    Alzheimer’s Quotes For Caregivers

  15. “Alzheimer’s… it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.”— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    Famous Quotes Alzheimer's Disease
    Famous Quotes Alzheimer’s Disease

  16. “I’m in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer’s, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.”— Marcia Wallace

  17. “The thing about Alzheimer’s is that it’s sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.”— Lucinda Williams
    Alzheimer Quotes Images
    Alzheimer Quotes Images

  18. “It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.”— Terry Pratchett

  19. “I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself – Who are they then?”— Bob DeMarco

  20. “The great tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.”— P. D. James

  21. “It is a strange, sad irony that so often, in the territory of a disease that robs an individual of memory, caregivers are often the forgotten.” — Karen Wilder
    Positive Quotes About Alzheimer's
    Positive Quotes About Alzheimer’s

  22. “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.”— Patti Davis

  23. “Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.”— David Hyde Pierce

  24. “Caring for an Alzheimer’s patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.”— Leeza Gibbons

  25. “I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They’re aware that they’re losing awareness, and you see them struggling.”— Patti Davis

  26. “I hate Alzheimer’s. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They’re gone. They are gone.” Pat Robertson

  27. “Suffering is always hard to quantify especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer’s. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer’s destroys the mind and in the process, annihilates the very self.”— Jeffrey Kluger

  28. “As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer’s because it attacks the two things most central to a writer’s craft – language and memory, which together make up an individual’s identity. Alzheimer’s makes a new character out of a familiar person.” — Charlie Pierce

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    Alzheimer’s Quotes Dad

World Alzheimer’s Day 2024 (Captions & Slogans)

The campaign theme for World Alzheimer’s Month 2024 is ‘Time to Act on Dementia, Time to Act on Alzheimers’

  1. Love outlasts Alzheimer’s.💜
  2. Honoring the memories that remain. 💜
  3. Awareness begins with us. #WorldAlzheimersDay
  4. Remembering those who can’t.💜 #WorldAlzheimersDay
  5. Together, we fight for a cure. #WorldAlzheimersDay
  6. For a world without Alzheimer’s. #EndAlzheimers
  7. Love is stronger than Alzheimer’s. #EndAlzheimers
  8. Love is stronger than Memory loss. #EndAlzheimers
  9. Memories may fade, but love endures. #EndAlzheimers
  10. Because love and support are stronger than Alzheimer’s.💜 #WorldAlzheimersDay
  11. Alzheimer’s impacts us all. Together, we can make a difference. #WorldAlzheimersDay

Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures

  • An estimated 6.9 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s in 2024.
  • Almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women.
  • 1 in 3 seniors die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia.
  • Every 65 Seconds someone develops ALZHEIMER’S Disease.
  • 13 million Americans are projected to have ALZHEIMER’S by 2050.
  • Around 1o million Americans provide unpaid care for people with ALZHEIMER’S.
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Conclusion

In the face of memory loss and the helplessness it brings, these encouraging words have shown us that there is beauty in the fragments, strength in vulnerability, and hope in the midst of despair.

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