05 February 2024 , 09:07
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Ruth Langsford has revealed her mum suffered a nasty fall and broke her hip just days before Christmas.
The TV star took to Instagram to show Joan is on the mend despite a very difficult six weeks. The 92-year-old was back dancing in her kitchen not long after her operation as she helped her cook the family Sunday roast. Ruth updated fans who have clearly been wondering why she has been nowhere to be seen lately.
It is her second fall since 2021 when Joan was left ‘battered and bruised’ after slipping over. Captioning her clip of the smartly dress nan: "MY DANCING QUEEN IS BACK!!!" Ruth celebrated being able to bring her mum back to hers as she gets a few hours away from her care home. The dementia-sufferer looked to be loving her afternoon with her daughter and her husband Eamonn Holmes in their £3.5million Surrey home.
Joan is on the mend and put herself to good use on Sunday (@ruthlangsford/Instagram)
She helped with lunch after making a very quick recovery from hip surgery (@ruthlangsford/Instagram)"You may have been wondering why I haven’t posted anything of Mum in my kitchen for a while…well, she had a fall before Xmas and broke her hip!" she wrote. "As you can see she’s recovered well after a hip replacement op but I wasn’t able to get her in and out of the car before today."
She continued as her mum let her hair down while helping prepare the meal: "It’s wonderful to have her here again (and I get all the veg for our roast peeled of course!) She’s an incredible woman and I hope I’ll still be singing and dancing in the kitchen when I’m 92!! Love you Mum."
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The Loose Women star's dad Dennis passed away in 2012 at the age of 84, having first shown symptoms of Alzheimer's' in the 1990s. In his final years, the former army sergeant was cared for at home by his wife. Joan later developed dementia herself, and is living in a care home since the condition developed.
She spoke about the disease online before in an emotional post. "You’re grieving for them while they’re still alive. They are physically there but their spirit appears not to be. It’s like you’ve lost them... but there they are," she wrote, referring to her father's "long and slow" decline. "Eventually we had to put him into care. It broke my heart. But sometimes it is not possible to keep a sufferer at home. Me and my sister had to persuade my mum to let him go into care, because being at home was making them both ill."
In an interview last year on the How To Be 60 podcast, Ruth confessed that she too frets she'll inherit the illness one day. The 61-year-old's fear of dementia, which can be genetic, is so intense that she has even admitted she's refused to do a test to see her chances of developing it.
"Whenever they say that you can do a test to see if you would be prone to getting Alzheimer’s, I don’t really want to do it, because there’s no cure at the moment," she told host Kaye Adams. "If I could do that test and they said: ‘right, now you know, this is what you do to stop you getting it. You have to take this tablet, you have to do these exercises, you have to eat this or don’t eat that.’ But there’s nobody can tell you that, so I almost don’t want to know.
"But of course, every time I go: ‘where are my glasses?’ and they’re on my head, or: ‘where are my keys? and I have those blank moments where you suddenly forget someone’s name – somebody you know really well. You think: ‘oh my God,’ so of course I worry, with both parents. But I try not to think about it too much, because it’s too depressing."