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===Health=== [[File:Peter Falk Columbo monument.JPG|thumbnail|right|upright|[[Columbo statue (Budapest)|Statue of Falk as Columbo]] with his dog in [[Budapest]], Hungary]] In December 2008, it was reported that Falk had been diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3795830/Columbo-star-Peter-Falk-has-Alzheimers.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3795830/Columbo-star-Peter-Falk-has-Alzheimers.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Columbo star Peter Falk has Alzheimer's |author=Singh, Anita |date=December 16, 2008 |work=Telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In June 2009, at a two-day [[conservatorship]] trial in Los Angeles, one of Falk's personal physicians, Dr. Stephen Read, reported he had rapidly slipped into dementia after a series of dental operations in 2007.<ref name="Conservatorship">{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/columbo-actor-peter-falk-_n_210120.html |title="Columbo" Actor Peter Falk Placed In Conservatorship | author=Anthony McCartney | agency=Associated Press |work=The Huffington Post |date=June 1, 2009 |access-date=October 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312141903/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/columbo-actor-peter-falk-_n_210120.html |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Dr. Read said it was unclear whether Falk's condition had worsened as a result of anesthesia or some other reaction to the operations. Shera Danese Falk was appointed as her husband's conservator.<ref name="BaltSun_Obit">{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/ktla-peter-falk-obit,0,6391826.story |title='Columbo' Star Peter Falk Dead at 83 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192111/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/ktla-peter-falk-obit%2C0%2C6391826.story |archive-date=January 2, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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