Bruce Willis wife Emma Heming Willis says that her husband suffering from dementia is struggling with cognitive problems.
Bruce Willis became ill with dementia a few years ago. Aop
Actress Bruce Willis, 70, who is familiar with action films, retired a few years ago due to dementia.
Now the actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, says Good Morning America in the program how her husband’s illness has progressed and what effects it has.
In the program, he says that Bruce is “still very capable of exercise,” but struggles with cognitive problems, says news site Huffpost.
– Bruce is in full good shape. Only his brain is deceiving him, the wife says in the program.
– Language disappears and we have learned to adapt. We have our own way of communicating with him – only differently, he describes.
While a man’s ability to speak, listen and understand speech has been impaired, the wife says that the person she fell in love with, sometimes flashes.
– It’s his laughter, right? He has such a cordial laughter. And sometimes you see it in the eye of the twinkle or on the lips of a little grin – and at that moment I feel like I am with him again, the wife describes in the program.
– And it’s hard because as fast as those moments come, they also disappear, he continues to cry.
Although the illness is heavy, he says he is grateful that the man is still here.
Emma Heming is a caregiver for her husband. Aop
In the same interview, the wife says that the actor legend no longer lives in a family home. He has been moved to a single -story house near the family’s home with his daughters, Mabel13, and Evelyn11, for.
“It was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make so far,” says the wife.
She justifies the choice by having her husband wanted it.
“He would have liked them (daughters) to live in a home that is better tailored to their needs – not for his needs,” he says in an interview.
The star familiar from action films was retired in 2022 due to Afasia. Aphasia is a brain -like speech disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate.
In 2023, a more detailed diagnosis was followed: FrontoToporal dementia. The disease has seriously impaired his language skills, especially.
Health library Included, dementia illustrates both memory and other data processing areas, such as linguistic functions, visual perception and ERP.