Fiona Phillips’ husband, Martin Frizell, on her Alzheimer’s diagnosis
TV presenter Fiona Phillips’s husband says they have been socially isolated since Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Phillips, which hosts ITV’s GMTV breakfast program, announced in 2023 that 61 years old was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s previous year.
In an interview with Daily Telegraph“You’re almost invisible, Martin Martin Frizell, a former editor of ITV’s show this morning. He said.
“We still have close friends. But I think people think, Oh Gosh, Fiona, maybe doesn’t look the same, or they don’t know what to say or focus on their own deaths.”
During the diagnosis, Philips said that he had been experiencing brain fog and anxiety for months and initially attributed symptoms to menopause.
Phillips, “This is something I can think I will buy at the age of 80.”
“But I was still only 61 years old.”
Frizell said he no longer knows what to do with cookbooks or designer clothes – both things he no longer use.
“Fiona did not cook in two years,” he said.
“Now a part of the heart wound is that it has this dressing room full of the most amazing clothes, but this terrible illness means that he is very happy to wear every day, the same pants, the same pants, the same pants.”
Two mothers Phillips wrote a moment to be released on Thursday since their diagnosis.
Frizell contributed to the book by saying that he aims to write “a few paragraphs”, but he wrote “24,000 words”.
“I started writing about how great a woman and how terrible it is, and it’s terrible because it was the last one to get her on her family’s long line.”
“Then I was very angry about how little support it was.
“As a family, we are just passing in some way and we will need more support at some point, but there really is nothing.”
In 2023, Phillips said that the disease was diagnosed with his family, mother, father and uncle.
He looked at his family and had made two documentaries about the disease – Mother, Father, Alzheimer and Ben, the History of his family in 2009, and in 2010, my family and Alzheimer’s.
NHS says the term dementia includes a group of symptoms associated with a decrease in ongoing brain functioning “.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the UK, but the exact cause is not yet fully understood. Although some treatments can temporarily improve symptoms, there is currently no treatment for the disease.
According to the Alzheimer Society aid organization, one of the three people born in the UK will be diagnosed with dementia.
“Society decided that we will not take as much seriously as necessary.
“The money, which is there for Alzheimer’s research, is basically trying to fight a disease, like buying a Starbucks cup coffee. This is impossible.”
Phillips presented GMTV between 1993 and 2008. Since then, he has led a series of documentaries and panorama departments and has become a columnist for the mirror.
