Dementia is a complex disease - an umbrella term that covers dozens of different conditions - that affects a person's ability to think, reason, and remember, getting worse over time.
It affects over seventy thousand living New Zealanders today, not to mention those who love and care for them.
To explore what physically happens in the brain with dementia Emile Donovan speaks to Professor Lynette Tippett, a professor of psychology at the University of Auckland and the National Director of the Dementia Prevention Research Clinics.
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