I’m going to discuss some of these in brief in this post, to empower you to work on your brain health! Happily for us, much of these changes overlap with those that keep our bodies healthy – nutrition, exercise, sleep, and stress. So my second point is that we need to be aware of the simple changes we can make to our lifestyles to keep our brains healthy. We know our Western world populations are living longer, and so the prevalence of dementia is only set to increase over the coming decades. Reflect on that for a minute, because I think many of us would have believed that it was. Number two – contrary to popular belief, dementia is NOT caused by, or a normal part of, the ageing process. Number one – there is a huge amount of confusion and a degree of stigma in the general population about dementia – what it actually is, how it can affect the patient and also the family/carers, what the prognosis is, and importantly, what we can do to manage it when faced with a diagnosis. I wanted to write about my learning from the conference for two reasons.
We know that currently, there are approximately 55,000 people living with dementia in Ireland, and we cannot ignore the fact that this number is projected to increase to 113,000 by 2036. September is World Alzheimer Month, and I can’t think of a better time to promote awareness and education about dementia, of all forms, not just Alzheimer’s (the most common type).
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I also have seen the full spectrum of how dementia can affect patients during my hospital training over the last three years, particularly during a three month rotation in Medicine for the Elderly/Geriatric Medicine. I decided to go, as I’m a bit of a nerd when it comes to learning in medicine.
Recently, I spotted an ad for a Brain Health and Brain Disease conference at University College Dublin, organised by the Dementia and Neurodegeneration Network Ireland, directed at both healthcare professionals and the general population.
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