I Broke Down On Live Tv Over My Dad's Battle with Alzheimer's. Thankfully, Eamonn Was There to Comfort Me ; On Father's Day, Tv Presenter Ruth Langsford Talks Openly About the Hidden Pain of This Terrible Disease, Her Denial of Her Father's Decline, and the Burden of Guilt It Bestowed10 Things to Know About Alzheimer'sdad Had Been Ill for 5 Years and It Was Toolate.Early Diagnosis Is Key

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Driving across Dartmoor with her parents one sunny afternoon in 1995, Ruth Langsford's father Dennis observed a beautiful barn conversion and said he had admired it earlier in the day. When Ruth irritably pointed out that she had taken a different road on the outward journey, he insisted she was wrong.

'He got quite cross and we had a discussion that almost turned into a row, while Mum kept quiet in the back of the car. He was adamant that he was right,' Ruth recalls.

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I Broke Down On Live Tv Over My Dad's Battle with Alzheimer's. Thankfully, Eamonn Was There to Comfort Me ; On Father's Day, Tv Presenter Ruth Langsford Talks Openly About the Hidden Pain of This Terrible Disease, Her Denial of Her Father's Decline, and the Burden of Guilt It Bestowed10 Things to Know About Alzheimer'sdad Had Been Ill for 5 Years and It Was Toolate.Early Diagnosis Is Key

'Then we saw a man leaning over a five-bar gate and Dad said, "I remember that man.

He waved at us." At that moment I thought, oh my God, he's gone mad. What's the matter with him? When I got home I even got a map out to show him the way we had gone. But he still wouldn't have it. That evening I said to my Mum I thought something wasn't right.' While the incident may have been minor, it disturbed Ruth, a presenter on ITV1's This Morning and long-term partner of Eamonn Holmes of Sky Breakfast News.

She believes now it was the first real indicator that he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's...

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