Our warmest thanks to Nicola Bellenger for her fantastic Great South Run on behalf of the Lewy Body Society and in honour of her Nan who has dementia with Lewy bodies. After the race, Nicola posted on our Facebook page: “I completed the GSR today, barefoot in 2 hours 1 minute! I’ve actually done it! […]
Leading dementia information portal, Dementia and Elderly Care News has featured the Lewy Body Society’s viewpoint on Jeremy Hunt’s recent announcement to invest in dementia care environments.
Dementia diagnosis is key to making most of millions Friday 26 October 2012 For immediate release The Lewy Body Society, the only European charity focused exclusively on Lewy body dementias, the second most common type of dementia, warmly welcomes the Health Minister’s pledge to invest £50M on dementia care and urges him to ensure understanding […]
A new focus on the care of people with dementia in hospitals gives LBS an opportunity to raise concerns that are specific to people affected by Lewy body dementias. We’d love to hear from you if you have experiences you would like to share about acute hospital care. We took part in a meeting on […]
A new focus on the care of people with dementia in hospitals gives LBS an opportunity to raise concerns that are specific to people affected by Lewy body dementias. We’d love to hear from you if you have experiences you would like to share about acute hospital care. We took part in a meeting on […]
LBS has made a joint response with Parkinson’s UK to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s consultation on a draft quality standardfor the social care of people with dementia and their carers. Click here to read our response. We would like to thank all the people who gave us comments to include in […]
What our organisation does The Lewy Body Society is the only charity in Europe exclusively concerned with Lewy body dementias (LBDs). The charity supports research into these dementias and raises awareness among the general public, the medical profession and policymakers to ensure that people affected by LBDs get the best possible treatment, care and support. […]
Jim McIntosh finished the Dublin Marathon on Monday 29 October in four hours, 24 minutes and 22 seconds, well within his target time of four and a half hours. Congratulations, Jim! He still needs some more donations to reach his fundraising target of £1000 for the Lewy Body Society, so, if you’d like to help […]
Rita Heap, died of LBD on 15th October 2012. During her first year in residential care she wrote her life story and copies were printed off for relatives and friends – it was particularly useful for those caring for her to understand the sort of person she was before the dementia took hold. The book […]
The ‘Blether Box’ , Scotland’s new online community for people living with and impacted by dementia has launched.
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