Mind your brain health: How to protect your cognitive abilities

Dementia is on the rise in Ireland, but there is much we can do to protect your cognitive abilities by making key lifestyle changes. The earlier we start, the better

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Some 64,000 people are living with dementia in Ireland today. The HSE expects that figure to rise to more than 150,000 by 2045.

This may seem like a terrifying prospect, but Prof Seán Kennelly, a consultant physician in geriatric medicine and director of the Institute of Memory and Cognition at Tallaght University Hospital, believes it obscures a more optimistic reality.