UCA students and film industry’s pro-bono collab for LBS’s first commercial
The Lewy Body Society has released its first ever commercial on World Lewy Body Day. The mini-film will get its global premiere this week at the eighth International Lewy Body Dementia Conference, in Amsterdam. Student creators from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) worked pro-bono at the world-famous Pinewood Studios, in association with Sony […]
Support our Lewy List demands for action on World Lewy Body Day
The Lewy Body Society is calling on the government to improve the lives of 100,000 people with Lewy body dementia in the UK, in the face of the global dementia health crisis. Affecting 11 million people worldwide, the number of individuals with this Lewy body dementia is predicted to rise dramatically as life expectancy increases […]
Lessons I have learned as a Lewy body dementia carer
Becoming an unpaid carer when your partner or parent is diagnosed with dementia is hard – it is full-time (and then some) job for which very few are remotely qualified when they are thrust into the role. It is even harder when they have a much-misunderstood form of the condition, such as Lewy body dementia. […]
Capgras syndrome: my partner thought I was an imposter
Imagine looking at your loving partner of many years and suddenly having the creeping suspicion that it was not, in fact, your husband or wife, but someone pretending to be them and, worse still, no one else believes you. Becoming convinced that the person who loves you most and who is taking care of you […]
The Miners dig deep to reach Lewy Body Society fundraising goal
Football fans have their eyes on a charity goal inspired by one of their own. Supporters of Maltby Main FC are raising money for Lewy Body Society after one of the club’s most faithful servants was diagnosed with the disease. Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia in older people but […]
Help us mark the second annual World Lewy Body Day!
Organisations from eleven countries, including Lewy Body Society in the UK, will collectively celebrate the second annual World Lewy Body Dementia Day on Tuesday, January 28, the birthday of renowned neurologist and neuropathologist Dr Fritz Jacob Heinrich Lewy (1885-1950) for whom the aggregations of misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain, now known as Lewy Bodies, […]
Dad sticks his oar in for Lewy body dementia in solo trans-Atlantic “Toughest Row”
A DAD is hoping to make his family proud by taking on the World’s Toughest Row to raise £100,000 for those living with Lewy body dementia. At 42, Tom Skinner had never so much as picked up an oar two years ago but is now deep in training for his solo trans-Atlantic crossing at the […]
Oh yes, he is! Biggins takes centre stage as Lewy Body Society ambassador
We are proud to announce the latest Lewy Body Society ambassador, showbiz legend Christopher Biggins, just in time for panto season. The Oldham-born actor is taking the leading role to help our mission to support people living with Lewy body dementia, their families, and the medical and dementia research community. Biggins, as he is popularly […]
Five years of LBS funding UK’s first LBD Consultant Admiral Nurse
Lewy Body Society is celebrating its five years of funding the UK’s first Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy body dementia. Admiral Nurses offer support to people with dementia, their families and carers, and their expertise to medical professionals. We have fully funded Rachel Thompson’s role at Dementia UK to help patients and their families navigate their specific […]
A mile of scarves and smiles a mile wide at our Scarf for Lewy event
Manchester’s Central Hall got a warm woolly hug as it was wrapped in a mile of scarves for Lewy body dementia. Hundreds of supporters from Manchester to Margate knitted more than a thousand scarves for the Lewy Body Society event on Thursday, October 17. People travelled from across the country to support LBS’s Scarf for […]