Mike Ditka’s family provides update on her health after hospice rumors

Mike Ditka has been off the radar for a while, which is a cause for concern.

Recently, there was a rumor circulating on social media that the former Chicago Bears head coach was actually in hospice care.

“But my husband is NOT in hospice,” his wife, Diana, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

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MMike Ditka of the NLF 100 All-Time Team is honored on the field before Super Bowl LIV between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs on February 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

The 85-year-old has had recent health problems, including a heart attack in 2018.

The Ditkas moved to Florida for a few years after closing their Chicago restaurant in 2020. Now Ditka is “finally home” in Chicago.

“I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally be home, to be back, even though it was very cold when we got off the private plane at Midway Airport a few nights ago,” he said.

FILE – Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka is carried off the field by Steve McMichael (left) and William Perry after the Bears defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 20 in New Orleans on Jan. 26, 1986. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin, File)

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The family actually moved back into the same apartment complex they called home before moving south.

Diana added that caregivers were present, and she finished her husband’s sentences as his memory failed.

Ditka led the Bears to the Super Bowl in 1985 with perhaps the best defense of all time. He coached them from 1982 to 1992 after playing for them for six seasons in the 1960s.

He also coached the New Orleans Saints for three seasons and played for the Eagles and Cowboys.

Head coach Mike Ditka of the Chicago Bears on the field before a mid-1980s NFL football game at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Ditka was the Bears’ head coach from 1982 to 1992. (Focus on Sports/Getty Images)

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Ditka also did broadcast work and became a fixture at ESPN in the 2000s. He was the first tight end ever inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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