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You may recall Kathy Ryan, from Tipperary, who has Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

Kathy and her sons Andrew and Matt featured in a viral video last year (top) in which they called for more Government support for dementia care at home.

Kathy also spoke at a music and spoken word event in the Sugar Club last year, called Alz Talks and organised by The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.

At the event, Kathy detailed her experience of living with Alzheimer’s.

Today, she has an update in the video above.

Meanwhile, a petition calling for the Government to invest €40million into community supports for people with dementia can be signed here

Previously: Bringing It All Back Home

‘I Find Myself Neither Young Nor Old Neither Totally Useful Nor Totally Useless’

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Kathy Ryan speaking at the Sugar Club in Dublin on Monday night during Alz Talks

Readers may recall a video of Kathy Ryan, who has Early Onset Alzheimer’s, with her two sons, Andrew and Matt, in which they appealed for more Government support for dementia care at home.

On Monday night, at a music and spoken word event in the Sugar Club called Alz Talks – organised by The Alzheimer Society of Ireland – people living with dementia and carers spoke of their experiences of living with the condition.

Kathy said the following:

Picture this:
 You’re standing in your own bathroom, holding one of three toothbrushes in front of you and you have absolutely no idea what to do with it, 
or what it’s used for, and worse, 
you don’t even know what it’s called.

Time stands very still and there is just this huge, empty, gaping hole of nothingness 
and you’re not sure what’s happening, 
you’re not sure what’s missing 
or if things will ever be normal again.

This is Alzheimer’s.Continue reading →

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Kathy Ryan, from Tipperary, and her sons Andrew and Matt call for more Government support for dementia care at home.

Kathy has Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

According to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, there are 55,000 people living with dementia in Ireland – 63 per cent of whom live in the community.

Between 2009 and 2015, Government funding for long-term residential care increased by €84 million, while funding for home care decreased by €11 million.

Today the ASI is launching its pre-budget submission 2017 and is calling for the Government to invest €67million for home care supports for people with dementia.

The ASI has also launched a petition asking for people to support this call.

Those who wish can sign the petition here

Alzheimer Society of Ireland

Thanks Edel