Rob Rinder announces dad’s death aged 73 after being diagnosed with ‘poorly understood’ illness

Rob Rinder has announced the death of his father at the age of 73. He described his father as a loving, funny, and beautifully flawed individual. The cause of death was Lewy body dementia, a condition Rinder characterised as a poorly understood and desperately under-researched illness. The announcement serves as a tribute to his father while highlighting the critical need for more research into this specific form of dementia to better understand the disease.