A care home builds links with kids, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

The Government must invest at least €12m each year to tackle a "crisis" in dementia care the Alzheimer Society of Ireland warns.

Dáithí Ó Sé tells Irene Feighan about the shape he's in

Increased corporation tax revenues should be used to fund a new €100m Fair Deal scheme for home care, a report has recommended.

Carers who provide home help to elderly people should be required to have a minimum level of training.

Just one of 35 recommendations in the National Dementia Strategy has been implemented three years after the plan was published.

Highly-educated people are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, a study shows.

One in three people do not know that diabetes increases the risk of developing dementia, it has emerged.

The HSE is to establish a national dementia register to help improve information on diagnostic rates and clinical outcomes for people living with dementia.

Most people with dementia struggle to eat properly.

Restrictions on reuniting refugees with loved ones are “creating mentally-ill children of the future”, senators have warned.

University Hospital Galway was fined over €10,000 in a 14-month period by a waste management service for incorrectly dumping medical waste in recycling.

Ireland AM was inundated with tea cosies after announcing their Great Big Tea Cosy contest this spring. Competitors were asked to knit or crochet a tea cosy.

Helen O’Callaghan says children need to be told if a relative is suffering from dementia so they can understand the changes in their behaviour.

More than 2,150 deaths from dementia were recorded in Ireland last year, up from 813 in 2007, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Neidín is already on the steroids getting ready to haul The Menu’s enormous carcass west to one of his most favourite annual food outings, The Dingle Food Festival (Sept 30-Oct 2) in association with the Blás na hÉireann National Irish Food Award.

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Four out 10 elderly people have little or no say about their care, it has emerged.

Half of older people living in nursing homes could live at home, if the appropriate services were available.

Former President Mary Robinson has launched Ireland’s first human rights charter for people with dementia.

Helen Rochford Brennan has always been a fighter, championing the cause of the underdog, be they refugees or people with a disability.

A 19-year-old Irish film-maker has released a short film which he hopes will raise awareness of the impact of Alzheimer’s on ordinary families.

This short film is based on a poem written by Beth Copeland called ’Falling Lessons: Erasure One’.

The number of Irish people with dementia will rise 40% in the term of the next government, says the Alzheimer Society of Ireland (ASI).

Grace Cappock; head of public affairs and communications with the Medical Research Charities Group.

Most of the details of how money will actually be spent under next year’s health budget will not be available until publication of the HSE Service Plan 2016, the health minister said yesterday.

IF YOU think the woman’s name, Magrat, is a typo or if you can’t see the funny side of Death getting sick of it all and causing havoc by taking a break, then steer well clear of the Discworld convention taking place in Cork this weekend.

Smoking can double the risk of dementia, and campaigners are warning the number suffering from the condition will treble within a generation.

The number of people with some form of dementia in Ireland will treble over the next generation.

Every three seconds someone in the world develops dementia, with a global report warning the annual cost of the disease will top €1 trillion by 2018.

Two people share their personal experiences with dementia.

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has launched a campaign to address the stigma that adversely affects thousands of people living with dementia and their carers often preventing individuals from seeking or sharing a diagnosis.

A national helpline for dementia has revealed last year was its busiest yet, with a 20% rise in calls overall, and double the amount of calls from early stage dementia sufferers.

Startlingly high prevalence rates of dementia among Irish women need further research, the Alzheimer Society of Ireland has urged.

A population of 30,000 living with dementia in the community has access to just 66 respite beds in nursing homes specifically designed to cater for the illness, a study has found.

Industry and academia throughout Europe have joined forces in a bid to defuse the dementia time bomb.

The head of the HSE has admitted to bending the law in an effort to make a dent in the emergency department overcrowding that resulted in an all-time high of more than 600 patients on trolleys this week.

The Government has announced a new dementia plan that allows sufferers to be treated in their own home.

An increasing number of companies funded by public money are refusing to attend hearings of the industrial relations machinery of the State and/or refusing to be bound by their recommendations.

Broadcaster Pat Kenny has cut his ties with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland as a result of a major industrial relations row in which four regional managers have been made redundant.

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Cork camogie captain Anna Geary, who is also the city’s 2014 Rose, has backed a huge charity cycle in West Cork which will help boost the coffers of six charities.

The Government has done a u-turn on funding cuts it made to organisations working with the sick and people with disabilities.

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has welcomed research which claims that a new blood test could detect Alzheimer’s disease three years before symptoms of memory loss.

MANY, many years ago, in a previous life, I was given the responsibility of developing a national fundraising day for The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.