LBDA is providing medical professionals the latest authoritative information on Lewy body dementia (LBD) through a new online resource.

Tube feeding is not shown to be beneficial to persons with advanced dementia, according to a review of the scientific literature.

Lewy body dementia, Alzheimer's disease and other neurological ailments are beginning to show more common elements than researchers had expected.
 

Sleep disorders other than insomnia, which are strongly linked to dementia, affect approximatley 59 percent of people ages 70 to 89, reports Mayo neurologist and LBDA Scientific Advisory Board member Dr. Bradley Boeve.

MRI and PET may be able to help distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia patients, reported a Mayo Clinic researcher at the recent American Academy of Neurology meeting.

A couple sets out to an adventurous bike trek from Seattle, Wash., down the West Coast to meet and film interviews with people they are calling Children of Young-Onset Dementia (COYOD).

British celebrities raise the profile of Parkinson's brain research by donating their brains after death to a London brain bank and encouraging others to do the same.

Dementia patients improve physically and mentally in a structured exercise program.

A protein linked to Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease is found to have extraordinary shape-shifting abilities, raising the question of whether one form or the other is likely to be associated with these diseases.

A trip to the hospital for a person with memory loss or dementia can be stressful for both the person and the accompanying caregiver. A new resource is available for families to help ease hospital stays.

Watch the story of journalist Dave Iverson's personal journey to understand the disease that has taken such a toll on his family.

AARP Bulletin Today explores the story of several men about their experience as a caregiver, a role traditionally filled by women.  President of LBDA's Board of Director, John Young, was one of those men.