Dr. Laura O'Philbin:

Diagnosis has come on a lot and has changed quite a lot. Typically now when someone is diagnosed in a memory clinic a lot of our dementia advisers are embedded into that service. There is a pathway then for that person to take post diagnosis. The person is linked in with the dementia advisers. Some people link in with our dementia advisers several times and some people do it once. The first national dementia strategy was published only ten years ago. People did not really know much about dementia and we did not have any public awareness. It was very much in the shadows and now we are in a completely different space. We have the model of care, which is an incredible evolution of the national dementia strategy. If that man was to be diagnosed today, I believe his life would be very different.