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Bruce Willis attends a movie premiere in New York on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. Nearly a year after Bruce Willis' family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his "condition has progressed." In a statement posted Thursday, his family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Bruce Willis attends a movie premiere in New York on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. Nearly a year after Bruce Willis' family announced that he would step away from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family says his "condition has progressed." In a statement posted Thursday, his family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with dementia, evolving from a previous diagnosis of aphasia last spring, More specifically, Willis has frontotemporal dementia, which can include aphasia, which brings challenges with speaking and writing. Frontotemporal dementia, also known as FTD, is one of several types of dementia and causes nerve damage in the frontal and temporal lobes, which leads to a loss of function in those areas, according to the There are different types of frontotemporal dementia. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia causes nerve loss in the areas of the brain that control empathy, judgment and co...

Only 15% of the 1,100 patients and caregivers surveyed brought up their observations right away, and 11% still haven’t, according to the survey, released Monday by the London-based Nearly a quarter of those surveyed waited more than six months before seeking medical help, the survey found. The most common reason for staying silent wasn’t anxiety about the condition, which is generally progressive. Rather, those affected weren’t sure exactly which symptoms are associated with normal aging and which are associated with dementia. Case in point: Legendary actor Bruce Willis. In a May 31 Vogue, daughter Tallulah Willis opened up about her dad’s Like so many other caregivers, she says the signs of her father’s cognitive decline are clear, looking back. At the time, however, she chalked up his “vague unresponsiveness” to “Hollywood hearing loss.” “I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” she confessed, adding that family members would often encourage each other to “speak up! Die Hard messed with Dad’s ears.” “Later that unresponsiveness broadened, and I sometimes took it personally,” she added. Confusion, stigma, and anxiety around dementia—which will affect a third of individuals over their lifetime—delay diagnosis and treatment, Kate Lee, CEO of the Alzheimer’s Society, said in a news release about the study. “We can’t continue to avoid the ‘d’ word,” she said. “We need to face dementia head on.” How to tell the difference between aging and dementia “Dementia is de...

Damien Henderson and Cody Godwin, USA TODAY When Bruce Willis' family announced he had been diagnosed with That's not uncommon, said What is frontotemporal lobe dementia? This kind of dementia involves a shrinking of the brain in the frontal lobe and/or the temporal lobe. Those are not the same areas where Alzheimer's is found; it is in the parietal lobe in the middle of the brain. Frontotemporal lobe dementia has two primary types and other subtypes. The type a person has depends on which protein buildup is causing the dementia as well as where in the frontal or temporal lobe it is happening. The two big types are behavioral and primary progressive aphasia (language). People with the behavioral type often are angry or act out inappropriately. They are often misdiagnosed with a mental health disorder. This type, Steffensen said, "is very hard on families and hard to find appropriate care." Often, assisted living or memory care facilities are hesitant to take people with the behavioral kind because their symptoms are hard to manage and can affect people around them. Primary progressive aphasia is the kind Willis has. Often it can be confused with just an aphasia, an inability to use language, or it can be confused with a stroke. Unlike with a stroke, though, the person is not slurring words. Instead, the whole concept of language is reduced, especially in the subvariant that Willis has, called the semantic variant. If people with this type of dementia are handed an apple, "...

Nearly four months after Bruce Willis’s family announced that he was diagnosed with “I’ve known that something was wrong for a long time,” the 29-year-old wrote in an emotional essay for Vogue . “It started out with a kind of vague unresponsiveness, which the family chalked up to Hollywood hearing loss: ‘Speak up! Die Hard messed with Dad’s ears.’” At the time, such an assumption was easy for Tallulah to make because she was dealing with her own physical and mental struggles. Over the past four years, she’s experienced anorexia nervosa, depression, and other mental health conditions that ultimately landed her at a recovery center, where she was given a diagnosis of Tallulah admitted that the timing and intensity of her own lows left her avoidant and in denial of her father’s. “While I was wrapped up in my In 2021, Tallulah’s avoidance came to a head when, as a wedding guest, she listened to a bride’s father give a moving speech. “Suddenly I realized that I would never get that moment, my dad speaking about me in adulthood at my wedding,” she wrote. “It was devastating. I left the dinner table, stepped outside, and wept in the bushes.” Slowly, through treatment and self-acceptance, Tallulah began to face her fears and join her family in caring for Bruce—who still “lights up” when she enters his house to find him traipsing about the kitchen and office, as dementia has “not affected his mobility,” she wrote. “Recovery is probably lifelong, but I now have the tools to be prese...

She also said that her father would take advantage of the life he’d created, stating, "Having grown up a Jersey boy with a scarcity mentality, he loved to enjoy the life he had made for himself. He was an indulger. Sometimes we’d go to a restaurant and he’d order one of everything on the menu just to have a bite of it all. He always loved a cozy couch with his feet up. Can you be 10 percent more comfortable? I think he asked himself that every day.”