Lewy Body Life

About Lewy Body Life

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.

Publisher

Ann Brucciani Lyon, Paula Rice Biever and Linda Olsen Engel

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Feb 2023

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 8 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   When Outsiders Think You're the Problem — It's Showtime

   Host [Host Name] explores the phenomenon of 'Showtime' in Lewy Body Dementia, offering coping strategies for caregivers navigating altered behaviors when others are present.

2. 

   22 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ready, Set, Go: Planning for Medical Emergencies

   Host [Host Name] guides listeners through proactive steps for managing medical emergencies with Lewy Body Dementia, empowering caregivers for better outcomes.

3. 

   17 Apr 2024TRANSCRIPT

   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.

4. 

   23 Aug 2023TRANSCRIPT

   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.

5. 

   19 Jun 2023

   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.

6. 

   20 Feb 2023

   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.

7. 

   20 Feb 2023

   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.

8. 

   20 Feb 2023

   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

Inside a recent episode

When Outsiders Think You're the Problem — It's Showtime

Published 17 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's tough because Showtime isn't something you want to stop from happening. That's a good point. The problem with Showtime isn't really Showtime itself. It's what happens because of the Showtime, the consequences or maybe the side effects of Showtime. Like we mentioned earlier, following a Showtime episode, it's common for the person with LBD to experience an increased severity of cognitive symptoms, like confusion and delusions, and to have physical symptoms like exhaustion and the inability to interact. It can really wipe them out for quite a while. Sometimes it can take a day or two for them to recover. […]

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5.0 / 5

32 ratings

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5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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