‘I’ve done my grieving, now it’s about living’

SHE knows her grandchildren’s names but she doesn’t understand that they are related.

Despite her 78 years, she at times believes her own parents are alive.

Breeda’s confusion is not in the normal range of what might be expected for a woman her age: She is one of 44,000 people in Ireland living with dementia, in her case Alzheimer’s disease, a degenerative neurological condition for which there is no known cure.