Hope for Every Season

Living with Hope and Dementia: A Doctor’s Story


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Tune into this week's conversation with Dr. Pamela and Dr. Jennifer Bute. Jennifer was a highly qualified senior doctor in a large clinical practice, whose patients included those with dementia. Then she began to notice symptoms in herself. She was finally given a diagnosis of young-onset dementia in 2009. After resigning as a General Practitioner, she resolved to explore what could be done to slow the progress of dementia. The aim of her message is to help people who are living with dementia and give hope to those who are with them on the dementia journey. Her important insights are that the person 'inside' remains and can be reached, even when masked by the condition, and that spirituality rises as cognition becomes limited.

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Hope for Every SeasonBy Dr. Pamela