Anne-Marie Duff reveals 'infuriating' symptoms led to brother's Alzheimer's diagnosis

Bad Sisters prima Anne-Marie Duff has further discussed her member Eddie having been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's illness arsenic she continues to rise consciousness of it

Actor Anne-Marie Duff has opened up astir her member Eddie having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Annie-Marie, 54, has spoken astir the information implicit the years and antecedently shared that Eddie, 56, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's astir a decennary ago. She has raised consciousness of it amid her family's ain experience.

The BAFTA victor - who is known for her roles successful shows similar Shameless and much precocious Bad Sisters - gave an update connected Eddie, who was diagnosed successful his forties, successful an interrogation published this week. Anne-Marie said that though the concern is "sad," they are inactive making "precious memories".

Speaking to the Times, Anne-Marie said she felt "infuriated and afraid" erstwhile her member appeared incapable to support 'his beingness nether control' successful his forties. It's said that helium would get connected the incorrect autobus oregon crook up to enactment astatine incorrect times.

Anne-Marie said that "all sorts of suspicions were aroused" by his behaviour, including questions implicit whether helium was drinking oregon taking drugs, and if helium needed therapy to determination forward. She said: "Why couldn't helium support it together?"

Eddie nevertheless ended up being diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer's, the outlet adds, and Anne-Marie said helium could not "accept" it. She said: "It was sad, due to the fact that helium couldn't judge it and helium couldn't afloat comprehend it." She said that the information - which affects encephalon functions, similar representation and code - is "quite aggressive" erstwhile "very aboriginal onset".

The Times reports that due to the fact that Eddie had nary occupation astatine the clip of his diagnosis, arsenic good arsenic nary spouse oregon children to look aft him, helium was provided state-funded, supported housing. He's said to person his ain level with a communal room and is visited by attraction unit during the week.

His information is said to person progressed present that he's successful his fifties though. The outlet adds that Anne-Marie and their household person recovered themselves successful the "midst of a nightmare" trying to find specializer accommodation wherever Eddie tin person much specialised attraction 7 days a week.

Anne-Marie, whose parents are said to unrecorded adjacent by to their son, said that they are "always giggling" and "always laughing" contempt the challenges. She said: "You volition get precious memories, adjacent though the memories are cobwebs."

The interrogation comes aft she antecedently spoke astir the concern whilst a impermanent connected BBC Radio 4 amusement Woman's Hour successful December. She said: "We're astatine a constituent present wherever he's going to request overmuch much care. So we're applying for that. So we're going done that hard process." Anne-Marie added: "My bosom goes retired to anybody who's going done conscionable the admin and the logicists of each of that."

Elsewhere successful the BBC Radio interview, she said: "I'd accidental he's been surviving with it for astir 14 years and he's lone a mates of years older than me, truthful that tells you however young helium was. And helium had his diagnosis astir 8 oregon 9 years ago."

Discussing her experience, she said: "It's very, precise hard due to the fact that you are watching idiosyncratic dilatory vanish earlier your eyes, but the emotion doesn't vanish. I'd said that is 1 of the gifts of each of it - that the emotion is truthful contiguous successful the room."

Anne-Marie described the foundation Alzheimer's Society and different organisations arsenic "phenomenal". She encouraged carers and those with Alzheimer's to see reaching retired to specified groups with immoderate questions oregon "even conscionable to talk".

If you person been affected by this story, proposal and enactment tin beryllium recovered astatine Dementia UK.

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