Motor racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart, whose wife Helen has dementia, has offered to talk to Bruce Willis and his family
as he understands exactly what they are going through.The Scots Formula 1 champion, 83, who set up the charity Race Against Dementia to support research into the illness, said: “Bruce is a great man, and he can still be a great man, even with dementia.
“I’d love to give him a call. He’s a wonderful actor, a superstar. Like us, he’s lucky to have the resources for round-the-clock care. But very few people have those privileges. “I’m hopeful that the publicity that is already being expressed globally by this very famous movie star helps to make people realise: it doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve got, dementia absolutely destroys that person’s life.”
Helen, who has been married to Sir Jackie for 60 years, needs 24-hour care at their home in Switzerland, where they moved to be close to a top dementia clinic.Sir Jackie said: “It’s a terrible thing. She doesn’t recognise she’s got dementia. I’ve just finished having lunch with her, we had a great conversation, but she will not remember what we said.”
Top news stories today Dementia will kill one in three people born today, but funding for research falls short of spending for illnesses such as cancer.He said: “The pharmaceutical industry is not doing enough. We hope to find a cure in my lifetime.
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