Singer Tony Bennett Diagnosed With Alzheimer's

JAKARTA - Tony Bennett's family reveals that the legendary singer is battling Alzheimer's disease. Tony Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's since four years ago.

His wife, Susan, told AARP Magazine in an interview published on Monday that the 94-year-old singer known for the song I Left My Heart in San Francisco has lost the ability to make decisions.

Tony Bennett, an 18-year-old Grammy award winner who started his career in the 1950s, remains cheerful but conditions are getting worse, his wife said.

"He's going to ask me, 'What is Alzheimer's?' I explained, but he didn't understand", his wife said as quoted by Antara, Tuesday.

Gayatri Devi, a neurologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, diagnosed Bennett in 2016. Devi encouraged the Bennett family to let the singer sing and perform as long as he enjoyed it.

According to the Alzheimer's Association, this fatal disease causes a decline in memory, thinking, and reasoning abilities.

Bennett has so far avoided disorientation that can sometimes lead patients to roam outside the home or experience terror, anger, or depression, the magazine article said.