Emma Heming Willis revealed her husband, Bruce Willis, moved into a separate home away from their family amid his frontotemporal dementia battle — and experts are telling Us Weekly how relocation can impact a patient’s way of life.

“Oftentimes staying at home can be advantageous, as it provides a familiar environment that can then promote the continuation of one’s routine,” Dr. Mallory Grivner, a licensed clinical social worker who owns a group therapy practice that specializes in issues of aging, grief, caregiving and anxiety, exclusively tells Us Weekly. “This can, at times, promote further independence. Also, depending on one’s cognition, leaving a family home can be an immense source of loss and grief that can exacerbate dementia and/or depressive symptoms at times.”

As for what goes

See Full Page