{"id":311106,"date":"2026-01-30T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/311106\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:43:11","slug":"living-with-alzheimers-disease-i-feel-for-our-children-and-seeing-them-cope-is-the-hardest-thing-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/311106\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease: \u2018I feel for our children and seeing them cope is the hardest thing for me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Se\u00e1n McNally was just 59 years old when he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease. As a new TG4 documentary charts his struggles, his wife Emer tells Arlene Harris about the effect it\u2019s had on their family \u2013 and how they stay positive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Se\u00e1n and Emer McNally feature in TG4's documentary 'N\u00e9altr\u00fa \u2013 An Scriosadh Mall'. Photo: TG4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/130f0509-9e77-4d8d-a454-84c0c0b331d9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Se\u00e1n and Emer McNally feature in TG4&#8217;s documentary &#8216;N\u00e9altr\u00fa \u2013 An Scriosadh Mall&#8217;. Photo: TG4<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">According to The Alzheimer Society of Ireland, there are currently over 64,000 people living with dementia in Ireland and over 4,000 of those have an early-onset form of the condition, which means they were diagnosed under the age of 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The disease can have a devastating effect on both the person with the diagnosis and their loved ones \u2013 as will be shown in a moving new TG4 documentary N\u00e9altr\u00fa \u2013 An Scriosadh Mall, which will be aired on February 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Se\u00e1n McNally was just 59 years old when he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease. As a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[99378,18,135,19,17,23,147476,152020],"class_list":{"0":"post-311106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-latest-news-ticker","14":"tag-shp","15":"tag-signature-human-interest"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115982696679001289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}