Rik has been married to June for 47.5 years, they have 5 children and 30 grandchildren. June now lives in a care home local to Rik. Rik recently attended the Empowered Conversations and Moving Beyond Word courses. Can you tell us how you came to be on the Empowered Conversations course? It was over [...]
Karen lives in Sale with her husband and labradoodle, Ozzy. They have 3 children, two girls and one son who is profoundly disabled and lives in a nearby residential home. Karen also has a brother. She moved to Manchester 2 years ago from Nottingham, 'most of my family were living around Manchester, so we moved [...]
The Empowered team are delighted to be working in partnership with the Open University to offer a studentship to research Empowered Carers. This fully-funded studentship is available from October 2025. Further details about the value of an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP award are available on the DTP’s studentships page. Stipend: Approximately £19,237 per annum for 3 years and 3 [...]
Want to improve your connections with people living with dementia? Empowered Conversations : Professionals can help! The Greater Manchester Training Hub has funded a rolling programme of courses for nurses and nurse practitioners working in Greater Manchester's social care sector. Courses are delivered online over 3 x 1.5 hour sessions until the end of March [...]
How Carers of people with dementia view the online Empowered Conversations communication course. Objectives This paper explores (1) experiences of participating in Empowered Conversations, an online communication course for carers of people with dementia and (2) how participants felt the course had changed their experience of caring. Method Fifteen semi-structured interviews were completed with carers [...]
Pauline lives in Trafford with her husband and supports her 90-year-old mum who lives in Burnley. Pauline works part-time as a researcher at the University of Sheffield, she visits her mum at least weekly, picking her up on a Sunday and bringing her home for a Sunday dinner. Pauline recently completed an Empowered Conversations course [...]
Linzi lives in Poynton and supports her mum who lives in Salford and has been diagnosed with mixed dementia. Linzi has attended Empowered Conversations and Moving Beyond Words courses over the last 6 months. Can you tell us a bit about your family life? Mum has been diagnosed with the ‘d’ word, we can’t [...]
Today Age UK have released their research identifying 2 million people have an unmet need for social care. The research comes a day after I sit and listen to my partner off-loading after a full-on day supporting people in Salford. They get a call out to a couple, as usual they don’t [...]
Claire is a nurse, she is a partner, a daughter, a sister, aunty, friend and a carer for her mum. Claire put her own life on hold and moved in to care for mum, Kay, at home during Covid. Claire’s sister, Jo, travels over from Yorkshire every Tuesday to care for her mum whilst [...]
This week I had a chat with Rowena and Mary at the Age UK Salford Dementia Café, both have had a recent carers assessment and asked to use their Carers Personal Budget to pay for Empowered Carers sessions. How did you find out about Empowered Carers? Rowena: ‘After my husband’s diagnosis in 2022 [...]