They would agree to have Sue, a neighbor, come in when we weren't there. Then they would forget they agreed and they didn't want to have outside help.

They were angry because you can't reason with people who can't reason. That's an aspect of Alzheimer's we don't always quite get.

I think it's one of the most devastating diseases on the planet. It robs you of the person one memory, one moment, one brain cell at a time.

Mom wouldn't remember things. She would, say, make cheese sandwiches, only you'd have bread and butter and no cheese. She'd just forget the cheese in cheese sandwiches.

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges