ALZHEIMER’s – it’s a word you never want to hear as a diagnosis from your doctor and the name of a condition that inspires fear and dread for anyone who has ever had a family member acquire it.

It’s the biggest type of dementia (at 70%), and dementia affects380,000 Australians (44 million people internationally) – with 1,800 new diagnoses each week in Australia, dementia is a seemingly unstoppable beast.