Jay Leno files for conservatorship over wife due to her advanced Alzheimer's

Horrible, this is why we should have euthanasia. And can we please hurry up with that Alzheimer's cure already?

I thought a legal spouse was already in charge of their spouse's estate. Why does he have to file for a conservatorship?

Just goes to show ya -- money doesn't buy happiness.

R1, I was talking about that with the husband just a couple of days ago. ALL the money given over so many decades for cancer and Alzheimer's. The periodic potential cures we hear of that "researchers" have discovered and, yet, nothing, nada ever seems to emerge. We got a vaccine for a global pandemic never seen before in less than a year. And yet, the staggering amount of money that has gone into finding cures for these ailments... they dangle a carrot in front of us from time to time but nothing ever comes of it.

Makes you wonder if there's anything more at play. I'm no conspiracy theorist but I honestly wonder about those things; if cures are being stifled due to the massive number of people and resources that now rely on all that public and private funding.

Some diseases are more complex than others. Geez.

Oh, man. This is tragic.

r4 That's just the nature of medical research, unfortunately. HIV vaccines had a horrible 2023 as well, so many promising ones failed. We're not exactly back to square one, but it'll take time. I admit that the older I get, the more envious I am of the future generations who'll have access to all the amazing therapeuticals yet to be discovered. I had to have my body mutilated over some cancer they'll have taken care of with an injection in one afternoon.

I realize that R5. But how many years now and how much money? Shouldn't there be SOME therapy developed that would help manage these diseases a little better? Anything a little better than what we have? And cancer especially is complex but it seems like something would have broken by now to help slow the advancement. Even the best stuff we have now barely work.

So sorry to hear that R7. Really. That sucks. Not having kids I sometimes feel a little bitter about the argument that we're supposed to give money or pay more taxes to help "our children" and the "next generation" when I wish we could see, and focus on the here and now a little more often then we do.

There have been significant improvements in cancer outcomes. It’s Alzheimer’s that really hasn’t changed.

40 years of marriage and NO KIDS? Some of Jay’s friends and fans would prefer to have Mavis locked up and their marriage annulled.

Never really cared for Jay, he and his humor were too smarmy. It was when I learned he was closer to MAGA nation I really started to actively dislike him.

There are new treatments for cancer, though. My cousin has a specific kind of breast cancer that is linked to estrogen and they're treating it by targeting her estrogen with some kind of medication. No chemo, no radiation. She's doing great, and the cancer has not progressed at all even though it had metastasized to her spine.

So there's that.

R11 Jay and his wife made a conscious decision not to have children. He’s talked about this in interviews. Not my favorite talk show host but I respect him for saying that.

There are also new treatments for Alzheimer’s.

One complication is several conditions cause dementia and you can’t know which one a person has until a post-mortem . My father was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, but it turned out to be Lewy Body dementia which was not widely recognized at the time. It’s what killed Robin Williams.

He's vile and obnoxious. She's clearly been demented for years, for being with him, period. I don't care about Republicans!

R13, that’s great. I almost can admire that too. But the point I was trying to make is that there are members of his crowd that consider Mavis “not a real woman” since she hasn’t used her uterus the way God intended.

I’m not begrudging Jay his politics, it’s a free country after all. But he could have done much more, IMO, to moderate some of his MAGA followers with his smarmy, “common folk” humor.

The poor woman had to go through life with the name "Mavis." Hasn't she suffered enough?

Dementia has been around for centuries. It will never be cured and neither will Alzheimer’s.

R17 . . .

Oh no! Anyway…

Look, Mavis and Jay are NOT Republicans. Mavis was an academic feminist turned political activist/philanthropist

I don't enjoy him as a performer.

He and his wife seem to have had a close marriage, and this is a devastating blow to any family. My heart goes out to him.

She was indeed a feminist activist and while I don’t know enough about Jay to determine his stance on it, he doesn’t seem like a feminist to me.

R23, he was very proud of his wife and loved her. You should have seen him when he interviewed her on the Tonight Show

He said he voted for Biden. He said his first vote in 1984 was for Mondale. He’s not a Republican.

Sad. She had a passion for reading.

Leno owns a beautiful estate in Newport, RI (my homestate). He lives 'next door' to Judge Judy, which means about a half mile away. He and his wife are in Newport and the rest of RI quite often, usually trying out new restaurants. No one has ever said an unkind word about them - they are always kind and gracious to the restaurant staffs and the public who recognize them.

I never cared for Leno and never watched his show. He always kind of repulsed me.

But then I stumbled upon his YouTube channel about his love for vintage cars.

It's great. He's the real thing, very knowledgable and at home around the guys who restore old cars for a living.

I was gobsmacked to see - starting at 2:55 - Mavis accompanying Jay at the premiere of Jerry Seinfeld's new movie.

New treatment for early stage Alzheimer’s.

Interesting that our red-tagged troll is on about Alzheimer’s and cancer since those are the parts of the NIH budget they gutted this year.

Also

Jay is getting exactly what he deserves in life.

ElderLez, Mavis was diagnosed with advanced dementia.

More from the red carpet event.

Yes, she wouldn’t be eligible for the new treatment. I was rebutting the talking point that no advances in Alzheimer’s had been made. Maybe you can’t see those posts?

[quote] Yes, she wouldn’t be eligible for the new treatment. I was rebutting the talking point that no advances in Alzheimer’s had been made. Maybe you can’t see those posts?

And I thought you were responding to my post. My bad.

One of the problems with Alzheimer's treatments is compliance. My mother was prescribed Aricept, then Namenda and finally the Excelon patch. I was her live-in caretaker watching this carefully. She would start the first week's course and gradually became suspicious and eventually refuse, declaring herself fine and a better and more knowledgeable doctor than her own. I had the meds slapped out of my hand as I was beggingher to take them..

Excelon was the last resort. She found the patch on her shoulder the day after her MD had applied it and ripped it off screaming bloody murder.

The (consistent) taking of prescribed meds is a universal problem, not just with Alzheimer's patients.

.... and there's absolutely nothing about Alzheimer's symptamatology that make compliance worse than for the average BP, antidepressant, heart med, statin, etc. taker... 🙄

And you are next, r33.

Jay has said he was a republican for the last couple of decades. I've never heard he voted for Mondale.

Half the time he said he was a moderate republican. If he voted for Biden that could've been a recent possibility.

I recall him doing something pro choice with his wife about 2 decades ago so I think he is a social liberal on many issues.

R14, Robin Williams killed Robin Williams.

R42, a lot of (former) republicans voted for Biden.

r33 What? Great wealth and a final act to live anyway he would choose?

No conservatorship for her, I say!

Let the bitch twerk alongside Britney!!

We tried Aricept and Namenda with my husband and they caused nighttime hallucinations and in-house wandering. We now have him on a pretty low (but still clinically effective) nightly dose of Prozac. The night stuff has dissipated. He sleeps more, but that is preferable to the kind of agitation (never angry or violent, just got up a lot throughout the night) he had. He gets up to pee (he’s 85–that’s normal—at 66 I get up at least once a night), but goes back to sleep. I’d rather have him awake for eight hours a day and content and upbeat than constantly getting up throughout the night. It’s a trade off—now I can get some sleep too instead of being hypervigilant and tense at 3 am. Yes, U’m on Prozac and Xanax myself.

Dolls, dolls, dolls!