Today’s Dementia Diary is written by Empowered Conversations Business development manager, Maxine Horne. Find out more about Maxine here. Sally eyed me with suspicion and then changed to a look of despair or disappointment. She was at the end of her tether living with both her own health difficulties in older age plus [...]
Today’s Dementia Diary is written by Empowered Conversations Project Manager, Emma Smith. Find out more about Emma here. My mate Jo posted a film on facebook last week. She’d taken part in a project where the participants were supported from the Olympic Diver Chris Mears to face their fears and jump off the top diving [...]
Retired GP Margaret Garner, leads the musical version of Empowered Conversations. She was inspired to get involved with the training as she has always been interested in the amateur music scene. This combined with her professional capabilities, saw Margaret get involved in music therapy and from that Empowered Conversations – The Sequel was born. [...]
Daughter Deanna Spencer is the main carer for her mum Kristina Farnum, aged 81, who is living with Alzheimer’s disease. Kristina was diagnosed with her form of dementia in 2013 – but at first – hid it from Deanna and her siblings. The 50-year-old mum-of-two from Timperley said: “Although we had seen a decline [...]
Thousands of families set to benefit from new dementia training in Greater Manchester A NEW dementia training programme that has been funded by the Big Lottery Fund is set to help thousands of families across Greater Manchester. The free Empowered Conversations training will be rolled out across all ten boroughs to [...]
Selection of relevant publications **Just published** **Open Access** Morris, L., Horne, M., McEvoy, P. and Williamson, T., 2017. “Communication training interventions for family and professional carers of people living with dementia: a systematic review of effectiveness, acceptability and conceptual basis.” Aging & Mental Health http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13607863.2017.1399343 Luxmoore, B and McEvoy, [...]
< Back to Library Like the library, this part of the website will evolve and grow over time. We want to provide you with an easy one step link to try out breathing exercises, meditation and mindfulness to help you to relax. These might not be right for you but they [...]
The Six Degrees team have been working on the Empowered Conversation approach and course for a number of years, the following working paper provides a brief history of this evolution. < back to Research Empowered Conversations came out of a local Low Intensity IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological [...]