Lewy Body Life Ann Brucciani Lyon, Paula Rice Biever and Linda Olsen Engel
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- Health & Fitness
Lewy Body Life helps care partners, family and friends understand and navigate the often complex and unpredictable Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) journey. Here real people with real experience and real insight share essential information for caring and coping. They also guide you to professional resources, strategies and support networks that can help increase awareness and understanding of LBD and aid you in your LBD journey.
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Safety First: How to Protect Yourself if LBD Behavior Becomes Violent
With LBD, situations can shift quickly and unexpectedly put care partners in danger. Here’s how to protect yourself — and the person with LBD — before, during and after a violent episode.
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Hallucinations and Delusions? Go With the Flow
Are you caring for someone with LBD who's hearing, seeing, touching, smelling or tasting things that aren't there? Or thinking unfounded or nonsensical thoughts? In this episode we delve into hallucinations and delusions — what they are, how to navigate them and when to seek medication.
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Keeping It Cool: Calming Communication Strategies
Simple but powerful techniques you can use every day to help prevent situations from escalating and why healthy detachment is important to your well being.
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Is the Unpredictability of LBD Making You Anxious?
If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Join us for an honest look at the caregiver burden and some strategies and resources that can help.
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Hindsight Is 20-20: Early Signs of LBD
Does your loved one have Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD), REM Sleep Behavior Disorder and/or experience subtle shifts in personality and/or cognition? Caregivers discuss some of the subtle and often overlooked physical, behavioral, cognitive and personality changes that may be early indicators of LBD.
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Lewy Body 101: The Roller Coaster Ride
Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is the second most common form of dementia, the least understood and the most difficult to diagnose because it’s episodic in nature. Unlike other forms of dementia where memory loss is gradual, the executive functioning of a person with Lewy Body ebbs and flows. In this episode, we cover the history of LBD and how it was identified, the diagnostic criteria for LBD, how LBD affects cognitive functioning and the importance of taking not