Dr. Laura O'Philbin:

It would be huge and could be transformative. We would know how many people are in each location and what we need to plan for. We say there are 64,000 people living with dementia in Ireland but to be honest, there are probably a lot more as we do not know exactly how many people are living with younger-onset dementia and we do not know specifically what types of people are living with dementia. As we are estimating, it is incredibly hard to plan services and supports when we do not even know exactly how many people we are dealing with.