#043. A big welcome to our first in-person podcast guest for this episode - Dr Jennifer Bute, a retired medical doctor from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Exciting!
The Silent Why is our podcast mission to open up conversations around loss and grief, and to see if hope can be found in 101 types of permanent loss. Someone recently described us as “collecting stories of hope” and we liked that!
Loss #30 of 101 - Loss through young-onset dementia
In 2009, in her late 50's, Jennifer was diagnosed with young-onset dementia, which ultimately caused the loss of her much-loved career as a GP. Since then she relocated with her husband, Stanley, into a retirement home for extra care, but sadly and unexpectedly he died just four months later.
In this episode Jennifer opens up about the challenges of living with dementia, her passion for helping others with the same condition, her hope for the future of dementia care, her strong faith in good coming from bad, and why they now call it 'young' onset rather than 'early' onset dementia.
Jennifer is a beacon of hope despite facing a number of previous losses including what she describes as 'the totally avoidable' death of her husband, a last-minute end to an engagement, loss of sleep for two years after her daughter’s birth and the death of her mother when she was 4 years old.
For more about Jennifer, her book and the resources she has created for all areas of dementia care (including end of life, travelling, melt downs, restoring speech and much more) visit: https://gloriousopportunity.org/
Or follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gloriousopportunity
To buy her book visit: https://amz.run/5ohO
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