Why is dementia with Lewy bodies so ignored? | Letters

The use of monies from the charge for plastic carrier bags to fund dementia research is most welcome (Report, 6 October). However, I hope that the research will include not only Alzheimer's but the second most common form of dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies. This most devastating dementia, which also links to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, is rarely referred to and mostly unknown to the public despite there being 130,000 sufferers in Britain. As a first step to raise awareness, maybe Alzheimer's Society should change its name to Dementia Society UK.
Moira Sykes
Manchester

" "Our grandparents' generation had to get to grips with the idea of importing strawberries from Spain and mangetout from Kenya," says Douglas Carswell (Singapore or Switzerland? Visions of Brexit leave a lot to be desired, 5 October). My grandfather loved his strawberries, but probably would have thought mangetout was something he and all his pals caught in the trenches.
Mike Jones
Pinhoe, Devon