A few of the 82,000 New Zealanders living with dementia, including Graeme, participate in dementia prevention research clinics started by Lynette and based in Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

These are, um, research clinics.

Uh, Auk- the Auckland Dementia Prevention Research Clinic, um, was the first clinic to be established in the Center for Brain Research, and in a way it was sort of the brainchild of Sir Richard Fool.

Kind of tapped me on the shoulder and said, "How about you look at this?" Um, but what we have developed, um, first of all, during the time of Brain Research New Zealand, we were able to also develop clinics in Christchurch and Dunedin.

And so w- what we're doing is we're looking or we're studying people over time who are presenting with concerns about their cognition.

Um, and w- what we're wanting to know is why some people with those concerns are progressing to dementia and others are not.

Some don't.

So they're like a pipe cleaner kind of?