Donna works for the Reablement Service in Oldham, she recently attended Empowered Conversations : Professional. How would you describe the course to colleagues? "It was very interesting. Staff with a lot of experience can become a little bit robotic, you do things a certain way because that’s what you were taught and that’s the [...]
Daniella’s mum has Alzheimer’s, she lives at home with her husband and adult son. ‘Dad tries his best, but he struggles to accept change and what mum’s going through. He has accepted some help, we now have carers coming in, mum goes to the Age UK Buddy group and to Poppy Day Centre through the [...]
Kim is 38 years old; she married Alan in 2006 after a whirlwind romance. Alan is 76 years old; Kim lovingly describes him as the ‘pain of my life’. Alan has dementia, he’s in a hospital bed in the front room and needs a new hip, Kim has her own health issues. The couple have [...]
Teresa lives in Lancashire; she’s married with two grown up children and a lovely dog called Ollie. Teresa has 4 siblings and was brought up in Salford, her parents were originally from Ireland and were so proud that all of their children graduated from university. Teresa was a self-employed IT Project Manager before ‘being forced [...]
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 [...]