Ruth Langsford has revealed she often worries about her health after witnessing dementia affecting both her parents.
The Loose women The host, 65, lost her father, Dennis in 2012, due to dementia, while her mother, Joan, 94, was also diagnosed with the disease.
During an interview on Saturday, Ruth opened up about her fears involving “complete and total blanks” that scare her.
She told me The mirror: “All the time, literally all the time, if I ever have a senior moment where I go, ‘What’s her name again?’, someone I know very well, and I have a complete and total blank, it really scares me.
‘I am now 65, my father was officially diagnosed when he was 72. But looking back, we think he was showing signs, we just didn’t know what they were, but he was in his late 60s and I’m 65.”
Ruth continued: ‘Of course I worry about it because both parents have had dementia, but I just think what will be.’
The presenter continued speaking earlier Loose women in 2017 about her father’s passing, admitting that the hardest part was watching her elderly mother lose “the love of her life.”
She said at the time: ‘I was grieving and losing my father, but my mother lost the love of her life, the man she married and had children with.
Ruth has also spoken to the before Daily email‘s Weekend magazine how dementia over time destroyed Dennis’ memory to such an extent that he could no longer recognize his loved ones.
