{"id":2093181,"date":"2025-10-15T15:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2093181"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:16:42","slug":"shark-tank-star-barbara-corcoran-opens-up-about-husbands-alzheimers-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/shark-tank-star-barbara-corcoran-opens-up-about-husbands-alzheimers-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shark Tank\u2019 Star Barbara Corcoran Opens Up About Husband\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Businesswoman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1871303\/\">Barbara Corcoran<\/a> has been opening up about her husband Bill Higgins\u2019 battle with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and how caring for her late mother, Florence, helped prepare her. Speaking with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4369706\/\">Parade<\/a>, the Shark Tank star recalled how she and her nine siblings took care of their mother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s 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\u2019s own fight with the disease. \u201cMy husband has Alzheimer\u2019s, and he\u2019s [currently] living in the memory ward of an extended care home, and it\u2019s an extremely difficult journey,&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesswoman Barbara Corcoran has been opening up about her husband Bill Higgins\u2019 battle with Alzheimer\u2019s 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\u2019s in 2003; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2093181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Shark-Tank-Star-Barbara-Corcoran-Opens-Up-About-Husbands-Alzheimers.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093183,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093181\/revisions\/2093183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}