Peter Berry & Deb Blunt, Authors of "Slow Puncture, Living Well with Dementia" & "Walk with Me: Musings Through the Dementia Fog"

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome two remarkable guests, Peter Berry & Deb Blunt. They are cyclists, authors, and dementia advocates helping to raise awareness for dementia.

Peter was diagnosed with early onset dementia eight years ago, when he was 50. Before his diagnosis, Peter ran a successful timber business. After a period of depression following his diagnosis, Peter made the decision to live well with the condition. He is very keen to help others understand his experience, both of the condition and the diagnosis process. When he’s not delivering presentations, Peter spends his days cycling around the Suffolk countryside, being the embodiment of his own doctrine of living well with dementia.

Deb is a retired social worker. She took early retirement and moved from London to Suffolk five years ago. The friendship with Peter has helped Deb to fulfil one of her main life ambitions: to be a published author. But this friendship has also taught Deb has to re-evaluate her own life and to try to live in the moment and to appreciate the joys that life has to offer.

Peter and Deb have written two books: “Slow Puncture, Living Well with Dementia” and “Walk with Me: Musings Through the Dementia Fog”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care.
0:06.0	With discussions on important age-related matters and topics,
0:10.0	brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.0	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by top rated local.
0:24.0	Hello, and welcome back to All Home Care Matters.
0:27.0	This is your first time visiting us here to show.
0:29.0	We want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today.
0:32.0	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is.
0:34.0	And that's why we try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters,
0:38.0	something that will hopefully matter to you.
0:40.0	Today, we are honored to welcome two remarkable guests, Peter and Deb.
0:45.0	Peter and Deb are the authors of Slow Puncture and the Book.
0:49.0	Walk with me, using through the dementia fog.
0:52.0	Welcome, Peter and Deb.
0:55.0	Thank you very much for the invitation.
0:57.0	It's great to be here.
0:58.0	Our pleasure, our pleasure.
1:00.0	So, Peter, let's start with you.
1:03.0	What was it like to give us kind of an overview of the diagnosis
1:07.0	and the immediate aftermath of that diagnosis?
1:13.0	The diagnosis itself was for me personally quite a shock, really.
1:21.0	And we're talking about dementia, correct?
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