{"id":51405,"date":"2025-11-10T15:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/jason-and-brittany-aldean-open-up-about-her-dads-dementia\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:18:56","slug":"jason-and-brittany-aldean-open-up-about-her-dads-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/jason-and-brittany-aldean-open-up-about-her-dads-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason and Brittany Aldean Open Up About Her Dad&#8217;s Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For the past few years, <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/jason-aldean\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Aldean<\/a>&#8216;s family has been quietly dealing with a close family member&#8217;s painful health decline. Now, as the singer prepares to release his new song &#8220;Help You Remember,&#8221; he and wife <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/brittany-aldean\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany<\/a>\u00a0are opening up about the family tragedies that inspired it.<\/p>\n<p>Aldean\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-unreleased-song-uncle-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously mentioned<\/a> that his uncle died from Lewy body dementia, and said that another family member is currently dealing with a similar experience.<\/p>\n<p>In a new social media video, Brittany reveals that that family member is her father. Brittany&#8217;s dad was diagnosed with the same disease, which she emotionally describes as &#8220;the long goodbye,&#8221; in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Her video also includes a compilation of footage of herself with her dad through the years, beginning when she was a young child and continuing through present day, with her dad spending time with her own two young kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The heartache that diseases like this bring to a family is something we know all too well. We hope this song brings comfort to anyone going through something similar,&#8221; her post is captioned. Watch below.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What Illness Does Brittany Aldean&#8217;s Dad Have?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Brittany Aldean&#8217;s father was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2022.<\/li>\n<li>In a new social media video, she says her family first started &#8220;seeing signs&#8221; of the illness in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/lewy-body-dementia\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20352025\" target=\"_blank\">Mayo Clinic<\/a>, Lewy body dementia is the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/li>\n<li>The condition causes a decline in both mental and physical abilities, and it can also cause visual hallucinations and movement symptoms similar to Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What Did Brittany Aldean Say About Her Dad&#8217;s Dementia?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In an emotional series of Instagram Stories slides, Brittany explained Lewy body dementia is a &#8220;horrible form&#8221; of the condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cognitively, your loved one declines, and it seems like such a slow process, but it&#8217;s quick, too. You&#8217;re just like, slowly losing your person, you know. Mourning the loss of someone who&#8217;s still alive. So it&#8217;s been a really hard thing to go through,&#8221; she described.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why Brittany Aldean Kept Her Dad&#8217;s Dementia Diagnosis Private<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Though the Aldeans share much of their lives\u2014including their experiences at home with their kids Memphis and Navy\u2014with the public, she emphasized that they&#8217;re &#8220;very private people,&#8221; and that they didn&#8217;t originally choose to share her dad&#8217;s diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;ve talked to my dad about this video and sharing this story, and he&#8217;s the sweetest man. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;If it helps one person, then it was totally worth it,'&#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Brttany Aldean Dad Dementia<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Brittany Aldean, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;So it was something I was never gonna speak on, but I just hope that if you&#8217;re out there going through something similar, you know that you&#8217;re not alone,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-wife-brittany-duet-easier-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason and Brittany Aldean Are Finally Releasing a Duet<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brittany also said she hopes her story shows that &#8220;you never know what people are going through,&#8221; and that it serves as a reminder for everyone to &#8220;have grace&#8221; with the people in their life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And any prayers for my sweet daddy would be so appreciated,&#8221; Brittany added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Brittany Aldean Dad Dementia<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Brittany Aldean, Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>What Is the Song Inspired By Brittany Aldean&#8217;s Dad&#8217;s Journey With Dementia?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Jason Aldean&#8217;s next album includes a track called &#8220;Help You Remember,&#8221; which serves as the soundtrack to the montage video of Brittany&#8217;s life with her dad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Jason&#8217;s band mates wrote this song, it obviously hit home,&#8221; Brittany shared, tagging writers Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, John Morgan and Lydia Vaughan along with Aldean in her post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-unreleased-song-uncle-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Aldean Has a New Song Coming About Personal Loss <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aldean&#8217;s new album is called\u00a0<em>Songs About Us<\/em>, and it&#8217;s out on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-track project will lean into more mature, and in some cases heavier, subject matter, Aldean <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-unreleased-song-uncle-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> during a conversation on Dax Shepard&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Armchair Expert<\/em> podcast back in September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The subject matter gets a little more mature, and you deal with s&#8211;t that maybe you didn&#8217;t deal with early on, or didn&#8217;t pay attention to early on in your life. And you know, now it&#8217;s a real thing,&#8221; the musician said at the time.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Jason and Brittany Aldean Are Finally Releasing a Song Together<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Songs About Us<\/em> also includes something fans have been clamoring for for years now: Jason Aldean&#8217;s first true duet with his wife. That song is called &#8220;Easier Gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"branded-app-shortcode-inarticle\">\n<div class=\"logo-wrap\" rel=\"fwef\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brittany was an aspiring singer when she first met Aldean, but she&#8217;s never released any of her own music, leaving only a <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-wife-brittany-kerr-american-idol-audition\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012 stint on\u00a0<\/a><em>American Idol<\/em> as evidence of her musical talent. She did well enough in her audition to make it to Hollywood Week, but went no further.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since they got married, fans and outlets alike have been wondering if the couple would release music together, and Aldean said several times over the years that they&#8217;d just need to find the right song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The Best Country Duets | 55 Country Music Hits, Ranked<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>Country is well known for duets, and there is no shortage of collaborations between men and women, women and women, or two men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/top-country-duets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=70&#038;gver=9&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/brittany-aldean-father-dementia-jason-aldean-song\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few years, Jason Aldean&#8216;s family has been quietly dealing with a close family member&#8217;s painful health decline. 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