SPECIAL REPORT: Dementia in Ireland - Condition could bankrupt us

Those diagnosed will often experience other chronic, progressive age-related illnesses, says Suzanne Cahill

THE magnitude and challenge of dementia cannot be over-estimated.

Across the world, every four seconds, a new case of dementia occurs and over the next 35 years, in the absence of a cure, dementia prevalence rates are set to triple globally and to reach 135m by 2050.