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Dame Barbara Windsor moved to care home as dementia advances, husband says

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Dame Barbara Windsor has been moved to a care home as she struggles with her advancing dementia, the actress’s heartbroken husband said.

Scott Mitchell said the 82-year-old former EastEnders star left the couple’s home in mid-July. Dame Barbara was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014 and her condition has worsened during lockdown.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper, her 57-year-old husband said: “I feel I’m on an emotional rollercoaster. I walk around, trying to keep busy, then burst in to tears.

It feels like a bereavement. “It’s always been my biggest fear, that one day I would have to take her somewhere and she’d be thinking, ‘Why would he do this to me?’ “That fear has become a reality.

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