The holidays look different for the blended Willis family amid patriarch Bruce’s battle with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), primary progressive aphasia (PPA) .

“You have to learn and adapt and make new memories [but] bring in the same traditions that you had before,” the actor’s wife, Emma Heming, told People at last week’s End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles, adding that “life goes on.”

Though Heming, 47, acknowledged that “dementia is hard,” she insisted that “there is still joy in it.”

She elaborated, “I think it’s important that we don’t paint such a negative picture around dementia. We are still laughing. There is still joy. It just looks different.”

Heming did not specify what the family had planned for Thanksgiving but did tease their Christmas arrangements.

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