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SEAN Lyons counts himself lucky that his wife, Beda, who suffers from dementia, can continue to live at home with him.

Beda, 79, a mother of five grown-up children, began showing signs of dementia nine years ago and was diagnosed with the disease two years later.

Currently, 38,000 people in Ireland suffer from dementia and every day 11 new cases are diagnosed.