Ruth Langsford is “actually frightened” about growing dementia like her mother and father.
The 65-year-old Unfastened Girls star misplaced her father Dennis in 2012 from problems from dementia, whereas her mom, Joan, 94, was additionally recognized with the illness and Ruth admitted “senior moments” make her query if she too is in peril of growing dementia.
She advised The Mirror: “’On a regular basis, actually on a regular basis, if I ever have a senior second the place I’m going, ‘what’s her title once more?’, any individual that I do know fairly properly, and I’ve a whole and utter clean, it actually frightens me.
“I am 65 now, my dad was formally recognized when he was 72. However wanting again on it, we expect he was displaying indicators, we simply did not know what they have been – however he was in his late 60s and I’m 65.
“And so I do have these moments, and I simply, I inform myself, ‘no, no, it is simply since you’re busy, or thoughts’s busy’. You by no means know, and I do not wish to know, really.”
Nevertheless, regardless of her fears, Ruth has no intention of getting examined as she doesn’t wish to know if she has the illness.
She mentioned: “All of them say, ‘if there was a take a look at, would you’re taking it?’ I’m going, ‘why? What’s the purpose except there’s a treatment?’
“If I might take a take a look at, and so they mentioned, ‘in case you take the take a look at, we might cease it taking place’, 100 per cent I might take the take a look at, however they’ll’t, and I do know what’s forward.
“In fact I fear about it with each mother and father having had dementia, however I simply assume, what might be might be.”
