Ruth Langsford fears dementia after losing both parents to disease

Ruth Langsford has revealed she often feels fearful about her health after witnessing dementia affect both of her parents.

The Loose Women host, 65, lost her father, Dennis in 2012, due to dementia, with her mother, Joan, 94, also being diagnosed with the disease. 

Speaking in an interview on Saturday, Ruth opened up about her fears suffering 'complete and utter blanks' which leave her scared.

She told The Mirror: 'All the time, literally all the time, if I ever have a senior moment where I go,' what's her name again?, somebody that I know quite well, and I have a complete and utter blank, it really frightens me.

'I'm 65 now, my dad was officially diagnosed when he was 72. But looking back on it, we think he was displaying signs, we just didn't know what they were-but he was in his late 60s and I am 65.' 

Ruth continued: 'Of course I worry about it with both parents having had dementia, but I just think, what will be will be.' 

The presenter previously spoke on Loose Women in 2017 about her father's passing, admitting the hardest part was watching her elderly mother lose 'the love of her life.' 

She said at the time: 'I was grieving and losing my dad but my mum was losing the love of her life, the man she married and had children with. 

Ruth has also previously spoken to the DailyMail's Weekend magazine how, over time, dementia ravaged Dennis' memory to the point where he could no longer recognise his loved ones.