Dementia Awareness Day 2012

Our media statement for Dementia Awareness Day read: Dementia means much more than memory-loss, declares national charity To mark Dementia Awareness Day, Saturday 15 September, The Lewy Body Society is highlighting the needs of the estimated 200,000 people in the UK affected by Lewy Body Dementias, to ensure that information campaigns and support services are […]

June Brown plays Family Fortunes Saturday Feb 25 on ITV1

On Saturday 25th February at 6.00pm on ITV1, our patron June Brown and Family (Louise, Sophie, Bill and Hannah) are playing ALL STAR FAMILY FORTUNES for a prize of £30,000. The quiz show donates the prize money to the winning family’s nominated charity. We are delighted and grateful that June and her family have nominated […]

Over Streams and Squirrel Woods by Alys Williams

Jenny Thomas wanted to write about a person who has a disease which slowly destroys the ability to communicate or recognise anyone, causes the loss of bodily functions, forces dependency and dehumanises the sufferer – as Lewy body dementia did to her mother. So during the six years that they struggled with the disease, Jenny […]

Sarah Mothershaw runs Brighton Half Marathon 2012

Sarah Mothershaw is running in the Brighton Half Marathon 2012 on Sunday 19th February 2012. She is raising money in memory of Michael Winson for the Lewybody Society. Please support Sarah at her Just Giving Page.