Singer Maureen McGovern, 73, reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis: ‘I can no longer travel, perform at live concerts or drive a car’
Maureen McGovern announced in a new Facebook video on Friday that she has been diagnosed with a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease.
The 73-year-old singer, who won an Oscar for her song “The Morning After” in 1972, revealed that she has posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) “with symptoms of Alzheimer’s and/or dementia.”
“What I do or what I can still achieve has changed,” she said off-screen. “I can no longer travel or perform at live concerts. In fact, I can’t drive anymore – how’s that for a kick in the butt?
Sad news: Maureen McGovern announced in a new Facebook video on Friday that she has been diagnosed with a rare variant of Alzheimer’s disease
The two-time Grammy nominee continued, “My inner workings haven’t changed. My passion for music, for singing, remains deeply robust.’
She ended the recording by wishing her fans; ‘Life filled with music’ and that they are ‘well, safe and knowing that you are loved’.
According to the Mayo Clinic, PCA is described as a “degenerative (neurological) syndrome of the brain and nervous system resulting in impaired vision and the processing of visual information.”
Tragic: The 73-year-old singer, who won an Oscar for her song The Morning After in 1972, revealed that she suffers from posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), “with symptoms of Alzheimer’s and/or dementia” (pictured in 1983)