Bruce Willis\u2019s battle with frontotemporal dementia has deeply affected his family. For his daughters, it has also raised difficult questions about their own health and family history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, recently revealed that she underwent genetic testing to better understand her potential risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While her results were described as fairly standard, Rumer acknowledged that genetic testing cannot completely determine whether someone will develop the condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has also spoken emotionally about her father and how much she misses the person he was before his illness progressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really miss my dad, I miss a different version of him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bruce\u2019s family first announced his aphasia diagnosis in 2022. In 2023, they revealed that his condition had progressed to frontotemporal dementia (FTD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n His wife, Emma Heming Willis, has said that Bruce\u2019s condition has continued to progress and that communicating has become increasingly difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His daughters have also had to adjust to seeing their father change while continuing to support him and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the heartbreaking circumstances, Bruce\u2019s family has continued raising awareness about FTD and supporting efforts to better understand and research the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For his daughters, his diagnosis is not only a painful family experience\u2014it has also made them think more seriously about their own future health.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bruce Willis\u2019s battle with frontotemporal dementia has deeply affected his family. For his daughters, it has also raised difficult questions about their own health and family history. His eldest daughter, Rumer Willis, recently revealed that she underwent genetic testing to better understand her potential risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. While her results were described as fairly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20953,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions\/20953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}