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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ann is married to Peter. They have 5 children, 22 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Ann started our chat with ‘I’m a new me’, for the last year she’s been busy entertaining, having friends over, making artwork for her new flat, vising Paris and Morocco, clocking up 30,000 miles driving around the UK to [...]
Tony lives with his wife Patricia, they have grown up children, and support Patricia’s mum who lives with dementia. Their daughter encouraged them to go on the Empowered Conversations course at the end of last year. “We knew something wasn’t right with mum, but we thought we could sort it out. I’m a doer [...]
Toni works in the dementia team at Bolton Hospital supporting patients with significant cognitive impairments, she is married with three children and one grandchild. Toni carers for her Nanna who has dementia. Can you tell us a bit about your family life? ‘I live in a cul-de-sac in Salford, mum lives next door and [...]