I read of a Buddhist teacher who developed Alzheimer's. He had retired from teaching because his memory was unreliable, but he made one exception for a reunion of his former students. When he walked onto the stage, he forgot everything, even where he was and why. However, he was a skilled Buddhist and he simply began sharing his feelings with the crowd. He said, "I am anxious. I feel stupid. I feel scared and dumb. I am worried that I am wasting everyone's time. I am fearful. I am embarrassing myself." After a few minutes of this, he remembered his talk and proceeded without apology. The students were deeply moved, not only by his wise teachings, but also by how he handled his failings.
There is a Buddhist saying, "No resistance, no demons.
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The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.
Gary TaubesTags: obesity diabetes alzheimers metabolic-syndrome
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 were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.
Andrea LochenTags: death memory aging dementia alzheimers
But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light.
I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them.
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They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.
Sarah OcklerTags: young-adult ya young-adult-fiction alzheimers
Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.
Daniel G. AmenTags: caffeine alzheimers
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 SpeersTags: love caring self-care alzheimer-s dementia quotes-to-live-by quotes-for-women caring-for-others alzheimers quotes-on-love caregiving caregiver quotes-for-caregivers
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.
Tia WalkerTags: empowerment quote affirmation positivity caring positive-thinking self-care alzheimer-s affirmations dementia alzheimer caring-for-others alzheimers positive-thought caregiving caregiver quotes-and-sayings what-is-an-affirmation
I love you but I got to love me more.
Peggi SpeersTags: love inspirational-quotes relationships self-care abuse lovers-quarrels empowerment-of-women alzheimer-s dementia alzheimers relationship-quotes caregiving caregiver abuse-recovery aging-parents elder-care elderly-care relationsihps-love
In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.
Tia WalkerTags: quote quotes caring care self-care alzheimer-s dementia alzheimer quotes-to-live-by alzheimers alzheimer-s-disease quotes-to-share aging-parents alzheimers-elder-care quotes-and-sayings caregiver-motivational-quotes caregiving-quotes eldercare motivational-quotes-for-women
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