Tony Bennett has Alzheimer’s: “Life is a gift even like this”

The diagnosis, Tony Bennett he received it in 2016. But, in the five years since then, the 94-year-old hasn’t wanted to reveal anything. The singer’s family, among the most famous in the world, has decided to disclose the medical condition only now in an article published by Aarp, an American non-profit association that cares for the elderly. “Life is a gift, even with it’Alzheimer», Reads his Twitter profile, where the jazz musician thanks his wife, Susan Crow, forty years younger, for the support.

Life is a gift – even with Alzheimer’s. Thank you to Susan and my family for their support, and @AARP The Magazine for telling my story.

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— Tony Bennett (@itstonybennett) February 1, 2021

Bennett, who has won 20 Grammy Awards, and has over 100 albums to his credit, also wanted to thank the journalists of Aarp Magazine, to whom he entrusted a story that began five years ago. The jazzman, then, found it hard to remember the names of the musicians with whom he had shared time and space. An unusual thing that led him to develop a concern for his own health. The wife minimized at the time. But Bennett insisted. So, a year later, he decided to rely on a team of neurologists. The diagnosis came shortly after. Symptoms of the disease were mild. Bennett admitted he didn’t think much of it again. Only two years later, at the time in which with Lady Gaga he was recording the album Cheek to Cheek, it began to get worse. “He does so many things at age 94 that many people without dementia would not be able to do. It is truly an emblem of hope for every person with a cognitive disorder, ”said his neurologists, explaining how music is an integral part of the therapy prescribed to Bennett.