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‘We don’t want to be
diagnosing people
who already have
dementia. We don’t
even want to be
diagnosing people
who already had
mild cognitive
impairment. We
want to make sure
we address it as
very mild, subtle
symptoms start to
happen, perhaps in
our 50s.’
MARIA CARRILLO, chief science officer of
the Alzheimer’s Association“When I went in for my
appointment and was
diagnosed with invasive cancer,
it took my breath away in
horror—and like, ‘Oh my God,
this is hilarious.’ Of course, it
wasn’t hilarious, but something
has to break the tension.“When you’re in these places of
despair and pain, sometimes
you need to be able to speak in
that space... and for people to
be able to sit in that moment
with somebody and accept that
and not try and suffocate them
with ‘You’re going to be O.K.’ ”TIG NOTARO, comedian, who showed her
surgery scars in her 2015 comedy special
Boyish Girl Interrupted‘Women aredying, notbecause wedon’t knowhow to savethem. They’redying becausewe have yet todecide they’reworth saving.And as a man,I’m ashamed.’
DR. NAVEEN RAO, senior vice president
of health at the Rockefeller Foundation