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Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.

— Leeza Gibbons

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

— Joshua Foer

Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.

— Marianne Williamson

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

— Julie Bishop

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

— Carey Mulligan

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

— Samuel Johnson

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

— Joshua Foer

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.

— Floyd Skloot

✗Opposing Perspectives

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

— Antonio Porchia

You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.

— Tan Le