Bruce Willis' wife says friends are 'nervous' to visit following dementia diagnosis as she opens up on home care

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Bruce Willis' wife Emma has opened up on how she is finding caring for her husband round the clock following his dementia diagnosis which first came to the public spotlight in February.

The 67-year-old Die Hard star had been diagnosed back in 2019 with Frontotemporal Dementia and his model wife, 44, has been working alongside dementia specialist Teepa Snow while Bruce continues to battle the heartbreaking disease.Emma admitted that it's "easy to get into the doom and gloom" after Bruce stepped down from acting following the health diagnosis, as she spoke of how she copes and the battles they have faced as a family in the wake of the news.The 44-year-old mum says it's all about "shifting perspective" and working your way through the hardships while caring for her husband, reports the Mirror. "I have times when I’m in it to win it and times when I can’t focus due to life," she vulnerably admitted during an Instagram Live with Ty Lewis - a Certified Dementia Practitioner who cares for her mother.

Talking about the difficulty of asking for help when you are caring for someone with dementia, Emma admitted: "People are nervous about coming around, they’re not used to seeing the person they knew in a different state, that can get a little tricky."She added: "Once they get this diagnosis people tend to write them off."But opening up on how she copes, Emma says that she tries to practise "gratitude" throughout her day to stay positive.She said: “I try to start my day and end my day in gratitude, things I want to make time for in my day and when I go to bed I think of three things I got right."It’s so easy to get into the doom and gloom of what went wrong so it’s really about flipping the script and changing that self talk."When