I know many members are caring for relatives who are suffering with Lewy Bodies Dementia
I Think it is a condition that many of us do not have much knowledge of
The following article . Apart from referring to the death of a celebrity who suffered with this condition is very instructive about this variant of Alzheimers /Dementia
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Lewy Bodies Dementia LDB: The condition linked to Robin Williams' death
Depression, paranoia, Parkinson’s disease, confusion and dementia. The long list of symptoms suffered by Robin Williams is itself confusing, but all of these and more besides, can be accounted for by the disorder bearing the name, dementia with Lewy bodies (LBD), which his widow has now announced as his final diagnosis.
Few people have heard of LBD until, like Williams' family, they are confronted by its multiple and variable combinations of symptoms which fluctuate in severity in an alarmingly unpredictable manner.
LBD is the second most common cause of dementia in older people, accounting for 10-15% of all dementia cases and affecting at least 100,000 people in the UK alone. Only Alzheimer’s disease itself is more common.
A strange and shocking illness
Lewy bodies were first described in the early 20th century by Dr Friedrich Lewy, who was studying the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, a condition recognised by a combination of a shaking tremor, slowness of limb movements, and a shuffling walk.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...insons-disease-brain-alzheimers-a6726801.html
I Think it is a condition that many of us do not have much knowledge of
The following article . Apart from referring to the death of a celebrity who suffered with this condition is very instructive about this variant of Alzheimers /Dementia
jimbo
Lewy Bodies Dementia LDB: The condition linked to Robin Williams' death
Depression, paranoia, Parkinson’s disease, confusion and dementia. The long list of symptoms suffered by Robin Williams is itself confusing, but all of these and more besides, can be accounted for by the disorder bearing the name, dementia with Lewy bodies (LBD), which his widow has now announced as his final diagnosis.
Few people have heard of LBD until, like Williams' family, they are confronted by its multiple and variable combinations of symptoms which fluctuate in severity in an alarmingly unpredictable manner.
LBD is the second most common cause of dementia in older people, accounting for 10-15% of all dementia cases and affecting at least 100,000 people in the UK alone. Only Alzheimer’s disease itself is more common.
A strange and shocking illness
Lewy bodies were first described in the early 20th century by Dr Friedrich Lewy, who was studying the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease, a condition recognised by a combination of a shaking tremor, slowness of limb movements, and a shuffling walk.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...insons-disease-brain-alzheimers-a6726801.html
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