Sean Connery has Alzheimer’s disease

Adamantium

According to his best friend Michael Caine:

Sean Connery, who celebrated his 83rd birthday on Sunday, is reportedly badly stricken by the illness to the point that he doesn’t know where he is or what he is talking about.

Michael Caine told German paper ‘Bild’ that “we should really be concerned”.

Reportedly, Connery carries his wife’s phone number in his pocket at all times. Should he get lost, which he reportedly does more frequently, those offering him assistance can call the number and tell Micheline Roquebrune (77) where he is, pick him up and take him home.

http://www.nodeju.com/12198/actor-sean-connery-plagued-alzheimers.html

I almost recoiled from my screen in horror when i read the link. So sad to think a man of such figure, icon and strength sucuumb to this.

I wonder if this is the real reason he has been out of the limelight and acting for so long.

Picture from earlier April this year. He truly looks utterly lost. So sad... F**k

http://i.imgur.com/tlehHvw.jpg

whirlpool

That's sad.

At the same time... an 83 year old man having Alzheimers isn't exactly shocking.

pharmaton

lkionm

The names bond.....


Are those my feet?

MightyMighty737

That's awful. Poor guy. Although it'll be equally as hard for his family, watching his mind shut down. I wish them all the best.

endacl

lkionm wrote: »

The names bond.....


Are those my feet?

Bad taste dude.

I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

jaffacakesyum

That's sad Sean Connery is a fantastic actor. As a person, I think he's a knob. But I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy.

KKkitty

Poor man. Such a horrible affliction to have

bluefinger

hardly appropriate for AH?

lkionm

endacl wrote: »

Bad taste dude.

I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

Your face tastes bad. I wasn't being a knob though just incase someone reports it.

Fantastic bond. Would have made a pretty cool batman as well.

Pity about league of extraordinary gentlemen. He hasn't acted since that movie.

Adamantium

endacl wrote: »

Bad taste dude.

I laughed a little, and immediately felt bad. Your fault.

Not even the maker of this thread is immune

lkionm

bluefinger wrote: »

hardly appropriate for AH?

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.



Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

Esoteric_

Horrible way to die.

I lost my grandad to vascular dementia just a month ago (dementia is extremely close to Alzheimer's).

Words can't describe what it's like to see the person you once knew fade away, never knowing who you are or why you're speaking to them, unable to eat, dress, shower, bathe, or walk.

I used to take the píss and make Alzheimer's jokes, until I experienced somebody who I loved more than words can describe succumb to the disease.

The worst part is the fear you can see in the person's face. The fear from not knowing who anybody is, the paranoia and fear when they think somebody is trying to hurt them, the fear when they get lost (in the earlier stages) and can't find their way home.

I feel so sorry for him and his family.

Adamantium

lkionm wrote: »

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.



Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

Lets just say for both our sakes, I would advise you to... tread... lightly....

Muise...

sho shad

KKkitty

2013 and still no cure for things like this. I can't imagine what the road ahead will be like for his family at all.

cena

I feel sorry for his family. Hard times ahead for them.

My 62 old dad has it. It gets harder to see him as time goes by

lkionm

Adamantium wrote: »

Lets just say for both our sakes, I would advise you to... tread... lightly....

If that's true, if you don't know the quote maybe your best course of action is watch it again.

P_1

Such a shame, I remember pretty much this time last year how he and Alex Ferguson were on the telly having a blast at the tennis in New York.

krudler

lkionm wrote: »

Why? I cant find the Alzheimer's forum.



Christ, that sounds bad. Imma gonna stop now.

I laughed at this, damn you.

Horrible thing for anyone to get though

timthumbni

Esoteric_ wrote: »

Horrible way to die.

I lost my grandad to vascular dementia just a month ago (dementia is extremely close to Alzheimer's).

Words can't describe what it's like to see the person you once knew fade away, never knowing who you are or why you're speaking to them, unable to eat, dress, shower, bathe, or walk.

I used to take the píss and make Alzheimer's jokes, until I experienced somebody who I loved more than words can describe succumb to the disease.

The worst part is the fear you can see in the person's face. The fear from not knowing who anybody is, the paranoia and fear when they think somebody is trying to hurt them, the fear when they get lost (in the earlier stages) and can't find their way home.

I feel so sorry for him and his family.

The fear in their face. That's exactly how I see it in someone very close to me. It's like they are in an unending bad trip where they are in an alternate reality where everything is scaring them, where they don't recognise their helpers or those who care about them.

I'm not religious but I pray I never get dementia/altzheimers.

scudzilla

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

That's sad Sean Connery is a fantastic actor. As a person, I think he's a knob. But I wouldn't wish Alzheimer's on my worst enemy.

i would

Esoteric_

timthumbni wrote: »

The fear in their face. That's exactly how I see it in someone very close to me. It's like they are in an unending bad trip where they are in an alternate reality where everything is scaring them, where they don't recognise their helpers or those who care about them.

I'm not religious but I pray I never get dementia/altzheimers.

That's exactly how it is.

I take comfort in the fact that about a month before he died, for the first time in 4 years, my grandad called me by my name. It was his only moment of lucidity for about 2 years, so it's a lovely memory for me.

The fear in their faces is definitely the worst part of it all, though.

Esoteric_

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

That's disgusting.

lkionm

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

Jaysus lad. There is a line. Most of the time I can't see it, but you are on the horizon

MissyFit

Well I guess he can forget about playing Bond again

Frito

Seeing the distress early on in the illness is awful too, when the person knows something is not right, is aware of their diagnosis and then hit by the insight that it will only get worse.
Having to explain to the family, often over and over, that the moment of lucidity their loved one had does not mean the disease is regressing. Hate that.

cena

Frito wrote: »

Seeing the distress early on in the illness is awful too, when the person knows something is not right, is aware of their diagnosis and then hit by the insight that it will only get worse.
Having to explain to the family, often over and over, that the moment of lucidity their loved one had does not mean the disease is regressing. Hate that.

That was a bad day when we all sat down with a few people from the home and my dad trying to explain to us that he wasn't well at all

timthumbni

Esoteric_ wrote: »

That's exactly how it is.

I take comfort in the fact that about a month before he died, for the first time in 4 years, my grandad called me by my name. It was his only moment of lucidity for about 2 years, so it's a lovely memory for me.

The fear in their faces is definitely the worst part of it all, though.

I pray for the quick departure of my loved one. It is no life to have what they go through. The eyes have lost all emotions aside from one. And that is pure unadulterated horror and fear.

They say Alzheimer's is actually better than vascular dementia as they can go off in their own world a wee bit. My loved one has vascular and never seems to have good moments. It's almost as horrible for the family to see it happening.

Adamantium

I'm generalising here but hear me out... Sometimes I wonder if the Irish sense of humor to play down/ mask suffering isn't some sort of cultural insecurity regarding matters of importance like illness, mental health and matters of life and death, you know like adults.

We've had somebody talk quite eloquently about how there parent descended into the hell that this disease is, and then in their online presence we're then wishing it on our worst enemies and joking about it to the nth degree.

There was a thousand other threads you could have done it in lads; but you HAD to do in this one!

scudzilla

scudzilla wrote: »

i would

Esoteric_ wrote: »

That's disgusting.

lkionm wrote: »

Jaysus lad. There is a line. Most of the time I can't see it, but you are on the horizon

before ya go judging and getting all self righteous maybe have a think why i would say that, why i would wish that terrible disease on somebody who has time and time again screwed over my family

Killer Wench

I watched RED 2 and I thought that he would be such a great addition. Now I know why he hasn't been heard from.

Esoteric_

scudzilla wrote: »

before ya go judging and getting all self righteous maybe have a think why i would say that, why i would wish that terrible disease on somebody who has time and time again screwed over my family

Somebody did some things to me when I was a teenager that most people would wish him dead for. I still would never wish Alzheimer's upon anybody, no matter how bad a person they may be.

Frosty McSnowballs

I hope he doesn't forget how awesome he is (

"Sean Connery has Alzheimer's.....not a lot of people know that" - Michael Caine

skimpydoo

My late gran had it. Was horrible seeing what she went through. Would not wish it on anyone.

lkionm

scudzilla wrote: »

before ya go judging and getting all self righteous maybe have a think why i would say that, why i would wish that terrible disease on somebody who has time and time again screwed over my family

I'm probably the least most self righteous person on after hours. I'm nothing but a gowl. I used to kill my sims by setting them on fire in the kitchen with no doors and would laugh when the fire brigade couldn't get in.

But wishing a diesease like that is just weird.
If you said I hope they get knocked down I wouldn't care. I still don't care. It's just a bit weird. I'm not offended. It's just weird.

It's like on Xbox and someone rages and wishes someone cancer, you just sit back and say Jaysus, chill out brah

What's happened After Hours? 3 whole pages and no one has made the obvious, Shaken not stirred joke.

Mon a serious note, it's a horrible thing to have to go through. Growing up my grandmother who had both Alzheimer's and dementia lived with us and it wasn't pleasant. I think I'd prefer to go on my own terms than suffer through years of it.

lkionm

Adamantium wrote: »

I'm generalising here but hear me out... Sometimes I wonder if the Irish sense of humor to play down/ mask suffering isn't some sort of cultural insecurity regarding matters of importance like illness, mental health and matters of life and death, you know like adults.

We've had somebody talk quite eloquently about how there parent descended into the hell that this disease is, and then in their online presence we're then wishing it on our worst enemies and joking about it to the nth degree.

There was a thousand other threads you could have done it in lads; but you HAD to do in this one!

You must be new to Irish humour

cena

lkionm wrote: »

You must be new to Irish humour

Nearly everything is funny to the Irish.

The Pheasant2

Really sorry to hear this - one of my favorite actors.

I guess soon enough we'll be seeing the other great and treasured actors of his generation fall to tragedies such as this

Insect Overlord

Deleted User wrote: »

What's happened After Hours? 3 whole pages and no one has made the obvious, Shaken not stirred joke.

That would be Parkinson's, not Alzheimer's.

lkionm

cena wrote: »

Nearly everything is funny to the Irish.

Except when the mother found out you dossed off mass to smoke fags.

No laughing matter when she is chasing you with a Hurley.

Riddle101

lkionm wrote: »

Your face tastes bad. I wasn't being a knob though just incase someone reports it.

Fantastic bond. Would have made a pretty cool batman as well.

Pity about league of extraordinary gentlemen. He hasn't acted since that movie.

Weird choice for a man to play Batman. I honestly couldn't see it in Connery.

That being said. Imagine a conversation between Sean Connery's Batman(if he played him) and Tom Hardy's Bane. It would be the most suave conversation ever.

Duggy747

My grandmother had it whom we took into our family house when I was growing up to look after her until she died. She was pretty big and mostly immobile so we didn't have to worry about her wandering off but it took a hell of a lot of work to look after her for those couple of years.

Every day that went by she just became quieter and quieter and her ability to speak quickly vanished until overall, by the time she died, it was very much the case of the lights were on but nobody was home. She was completely in a vegetative state so mentally she was long, long gone before her body gave up.

Miserable end to her life, put a massive toll on us (enormous costs looking after her), the ensuing fight over the will and other horsehit between relations, but I suppose at least she had a somewhat dignified death by dying in our house as opposed to a nursing home / hospital away from family.

Rotten disease that strips who you are away and just leaves an empty shell.

I wonder how long he's being suffering from it.

cena

lkionm wrote: »

Except when the mother found out you dossed off mass to smoke fags.

No laughing matter when she is chasing you with a Hurley.

I don't smoke

As much as I've enjoyed a lot of Connery's work, is he really classed as one of the greats? Connery has a few iconic roles but no matter what role he plays its always Connery playing Connery. He has no real range and is atrocious when it comes to accents. He's also known for bring a dick who was abusive to women and those he worked with.

Insect Overlord

Insect Overlord wrote: »

That would be Parkinson's, not Alzheimer's.

The few people I know suffering from the disease do a lot of shaking and hitting out. Think it's due to the frustration and confusion they feel. As kids we quickly got used to avoiding our grandmothers leg which would often shoot out of nowhere.

Duggy747

Nobody could play an Egyptian with a Scottish accent like Sean Connery in Highlander :pac:

Anyways, check out this monstrosity of CGI in his Citroën advert:

LauraK85

lkionm wrote: »

I'm probably the least most self righteous person on after hours. I'm nothing but a gowl. I used to kill my sims by setting them on fire in the kitchen with no doors and would laugh when the fire brigade couldn't get in.

I've been skitting for the last five minutes at this!


Alzheimer's s an awful disease! I wish him and his family the best.

artanevilla

Any other sources for this story? Doesn't seem to be anywhere.

Royal.Baby

His backside in Entrapment was something else.