Bruce Willis’s wife Emma Heming Willis has said her husband’s type of dementia is “being swept under the carpet” as she criticised doctors and the media.
The Hollywood actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) which primarily affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, associated with behaviour, personality, and language.
In a new Instagram video, Mrs Heming Willis said: “When doctors or the media talk about dementia, they’ll say Alzheimers and other dementias. So, FTD is the ‘other’ dementia, and let me tell you something about that disease. It is real, it is out there, and it will bring you to your knees.”
The Hollywood actor was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) which primarily affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, associated with behaviour, personality, and language.
In a new Instagram video, Mrs Heming Willis said: “When doctors or the media talk about dementia, they’ll say Alzheimers and other dementias. So, FTD is the ‘other’ dementia, and let me tell you something about that disease. It is real, it is out there, and it will bring you to your knees.”
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00:00 When doctors or media, and they talk about dementia,
00:03 they'll say Alzheimer's and other dementias.
00:05 So FTD is the other dementia.
00:08 And let me tell you something about that disease.
00:11 It is real, it is out there,
00:13 and it will bring you to your knees.
00:16 So I think that is an absolute disservice
00:19 and absolutely disrespectful for these other dementias
00:23 to be put in that category.
00:25 I think it's really important for us
00:26 to know what these diseases are like vascular,
00:30 like Lewy body, like FTD,
00:33 and call it what it is
00:35 because that is where the confusion lies.
00:38 When people think of dementia,
00:39 they automatically think of Alzheimer's.
00:41 So I do not wanna see this disease
00:44 and our other dementias being swept under the rug anymore.
00:48 So again, there's another why.
00:50 Let's continue to raise our voices.