‘Shark Tank’ Star Barbara Corcoran Opens Up About Husband’s Alzheimer’s Battle

Businesswoman Barbara Corcoran has been opening up about her husband Bill Higgins’ battle with Alzheimer’s disease, and how caring for her late mother, Florence, helped prepare her. Speaking with Parade, the Shark Tank star recalled how she and her nine siblings took care of their mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2003; she died nine years later at age 87. This experience provided lessons that Corcoran has been able to apply when it comes to her husband’s own fight with the disease. “My husband has Alzheimer’s, and he’s [currently] living in the memory ward of an extended care home, and it’s an extremely difficult journey,…