Fiona Phillips Tuesday night heartbreakingly revealed her shock Alzheimer’s diagnosis aged 62.
Originally the former GMTV host put her ‘anxiety, ‘confusion and ‘brain fog’ down to the menopause and underwent hormone replacement therapy.
But because her brain fog persisted, she visited more specialists and eventually her diagnosis was confirmed.
Giving out cash to strangers could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s.
That is according to research by USC and Bar-Ilan University in Israel, which linked financial altruism to the first stages of the disease.
The study tested the theory on 67 adults around the age of 70.
The participants were put in pairs with people they had never met, and were given $10 (£8) to distribute between themselves and the other.
Neurological tests were given to the participants to judge their cognitive state and their potential risk of developing Alzheimer’s.
The results, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, suggested those who were at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s were also more willing to hand out money to the person they had never met.
Dr Duke Han, a neuropsychology professor at USC who led the research, said: ‘Trouble handling money is thought to be one of the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease, and this finding supports that notion.’
