Remember Me? Quotes

“For someone with dementia it's a process of dying, there is no shocking moment, it's just a slow, inexorable, often painfully drawn out procession towards the end.”
― Shobna Gulati, Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

“Dementia is an incurable, progressive, relentless disease ... there is nothing you can do except make someone as comfortable as possible, it's impossible to imagine unless you know by experiencing it, how hopeless that can feel.”
― Shobna Gulati, Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

“Dementia is an incurable, progressive, relentless disease.”
― Shobna Gulati, Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

“As I write in the middle of this crisis, we can see that we have failed our elderly, it's the difference between caring and not caring, and the problem for carers is that they are currently doing their job in a society where the majority of people, and those with power, don't really care. The protective ring around our care homes that the government said they were implementing, didn't really protect anyone after all.”
― Shobna Gulati, Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory