'It felt like a prison sentence': Calls for more supports for people with dementia

Marguerite Keating of the Irish Dementia Working Group said: 'They told me that I had early onset Alzheimer's and I found that very, very frightening.'

More supports are needed for people with dementia, a Tipperary woman diagnosed at just 55 has urged. 

An estimated 64,000 people have dementia in Ireland, including about 4,000 aged under 65. Marguerite Keating said: “Dementia was a bad word in this country for a long time."