Alzheimer's Is Not The Only Dementia, Says Soap Star, Dot - UK

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Alzheimer's Is Not The Only Dementia, Says Soap Star, Dot - UK

In the midst of recent news stories which have been raising public

awareness about dementia, the Lewy Body Society, Europe's only

charity dedicated to the second most common form of age-related

dementia, known as Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), celebrates its

first year with a dinner at the Reform Club, London on Friday 15

June. Guest of Honour is octagenerarian actress Miss June Brown, also

known as Dot on the popular BBC 1 television soap, EastEnders.

" Alzheimer's is not the only dementia, " said Miss Brown, whose late

husband, the actor Bob Arnold, died of DLB in 2003. " It is important

for people, especially doctors, to know about Lewy Body Disease so

that fewer people are misdiagnosed and so they can receive the proper

treatment. "

The charity, which has raised more than £70,000 in its first year is

information driven, with aims of raising awareness of and supporting

research into Dementia with Lewy bodies. Between 120- 130,000 people

in the UK are thought to suffer from this terrible neurodegenerative

disease.

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