Bruce Willis living in special care home away from family as his dementia advances

Bruce Willis’ wife has revealed she’d been forced to move him into another home where he can receive ‘around the clock care’.

Two years ago, the family of the Die Hard actor announced that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which came a year after his retirement from Hollywood.

This week, Bruce’s wife Emma, 47, gave an emotional sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer, in which she spoke about the difficulties of the 70-year-old’s diagnosis and the tough decision she’s had to make about his care.

‘I knew first and foremost, Bruce would want that for our daughters, you know, he wouldn’t want them to be in a home that was more tailored to their needs, not his needs.’

Noise causes agitation for people with FTD, and Emma had to ‘isolate’ the family and stop having guests over before moving Bruce to a home where he could receive around the clock care.

‘It’s one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make. Bruce is in really great health overall, you know. It’s just his brain that is failing him,’ she said.

‘The language is going, and, you know, we’ve learned to adapt. And we have a way of communicating with him, which is just a different, a different way.’

Emma went on to explain that she now spends breakfast and dinner with him every day and that he receives regular visits from their daughters and his friends and other family members.

When asked how Bruce reacted to the news that he would be moving out of his family home and into a care facility, she shared: ‘I don’t think he ever connected the dots.’