Sad to see another one of football's great mavericks, Frank Worthington is suffering from Alzheimer's. Really such a cruel fate for a great talent like our Stan and many others now coming to light. Here's a piece of outrageous skill from Worthington back in the70s... http://talksport.com/football/watch...aughter-reveals-former-huddersfield-leicester
FRANK WORTHINGTON WAS AN AMAZING TALENT HOW SAD god bless you frank please god lets hope this can be contained
I have bad news for you Ted Alzhiemers is incurable and will eventually (probably within 6-7 years) lead to death. It cannot be contained or halted, if we are lucky in a couple of years there may be something which can slow it down a bit, as long as it is diagnosed early. Bad luck Frank and thanks for being one of those who made the seventies a joy for the football fan. Or me anyway. Am I right in thinking that Bobmid used to play in the same team as him?
I had to research dementia and Alzheimer's for a Uni paper and i was horrified listening to family members and the effects it had on. It's horrid for all involved. Very sad
I read the other day that Nobby Stiles and Martin Peters are also now sufferers which, if true, is also very sad. Saw Frank Worthington many times, bless 'im.
This is desperately sad news. Frank Worthington is, without doubt, my favourite ever non-QPR player. Back in the day, I used to count down the days until he would return to Loftus Road and then I'd take my place in the school end to enjoy his pre-match warm up which would comprise him pinging the ball into the top corner of the goal with one foot wrapped around the back of the other. He was a truly magnificent footballer. Frank would have graced our No 10 shirt with distinction and will always be second to only Stan Bowles in my mind. What a **** disease this is.
I remember seeing Frank Worthington on the tele in the 70's and he was a great footballer. Alzheimers is a terrible disease. It is particularly hard on the family of the person who has got it as they are not recognised by their loved one any more. My Aunt had it for 10 years and passed away on Christmas day.
As someone who has a parent with alzheimers I can empathize with anyone who is suffering from or is close to someone suffering from the disease it is truly terrible & as you say particularly hard on the family. My thoughts go out to Frank & his family in what must be a difficult time.
Sad if true, he was a great player and one that I wished had played for us. He denies that he has the disease however ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36234373 Hopefully that's the case.
I hope it's a misunderstanding but a bit odd with his daughter making the original announcement. I am doing a lot of work in this area at the moment and as others have said my I can only sympathise massively with anyone affected by this truly horrible disease. Dementia is my greatest personal fear.
I have read and heard of many new developments in research into alzheimers - could be curable in 5 to be 10 years
Not sure I would agree with you Oslo. Stan might know more than I....but I only know of symptomatic treatments being developed. We have few biomarkers for the disease and early treatment of the symptoms is the best on the horizon. A disease I dread in myself and in my nearest and dearest. We have watch an aunt go from feisty old woman to a vegetable who strokes a toy cat 24/7 in about 2 years.
Alzheimer's has touched our family. My wife's mum has it and has gone from being an unbelievably capable mum of 4 to a 75 year old who can't speak, walk or do anything for herself. We are lucky that she has 4 girls, one of whom visits her every weekend. It's a degrading and unbelievably sad decline, but at the same time, spending time with her and the other residents in her care home is a touching experience, sad of course, but somehow uplifting. Each of those people had a life and a story to tell, if they still could. My sister in law is doing a 100mile bike ride tomorrow to fundraise. Should I post the link, or is that presumptuous?
I was shocked when I heard a bunch of UK and US politicians talking about 'finding a cure' by 2025. As you well know, science doesn't work like that. My company has invested billions of dollars into Alzheimers research, we have one more set of trials to go through before possibly bringing the first 'disease modifying' treatment to market in a couple of years time. But it will be a long way from a cure, it will slow down the progress of the illness in those patients who have the 'mild' form (all in the public domain, so I'm giving nothing away). I am sure we will continue to invest heavily, because not only will the rewards be great if we crack it, but, believe it or not, we feel it's the right thing to do. In the absence of treatments at the moment many doctors are reluctant to diagnose Alzheimer's explicitly. There's nothing, except a few things which partially help with symptons, that they can do. We have an added challenge in the UK in that diagnosis is difficult - takes a radioactive imaging agent with a very short half life which needs to be made up individually for each patient to be used in PET scanners which we simply don't have many of. The alternative, looking at spinal fluid, requires a spinal tap and is not accepted practice in the UK (unlike Germany and the US). Alzheimer's is obviously a high priority for research, the Pharma industry and governments, so I am sure that progress, step by step, will be made, just like it has been for cancer. I'm just very doubtful that we will find a 'cure' for something we still don't understand very well to a deadline. The other main form of dementia, vascular dementia, we can all do something about, because it's caused by the impact of strokes (including tiny, imperceptible, strokes which you don't know you've had) on the brain. So the same lifestyle decisions which help protect against diabetes and cardiovascular disease will help a lot.
