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9-Year-Old Daughter of Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis Educating Herself to Help Care for Father with Dementia

  • Emma Heming Willis said her 9-year-old daughter Evelyn learned about the importance of hydration for dementia patients in order to help care for her father Bruce Willis, who was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
  • Evelyn asked her mother if people with dementia can become severely dehydrated after reading about dementia during her free time at school.
  • Emma Heming Willis encouraged her daughter's curiosity and said that educating ourselves about loved ones' diseases is one of the most compassionate things we can do to support them.
  • Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis have two daughters: Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 9.
  • Bruce Willis received a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia in February and had a previous diagnosis of aphasia last year.
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