Prevention is the key.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

We have, after all, an ageing population, and dementia is generally a condition of ageing, in that the risk increases with age.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.