Andrea Tucker is an Operational Team Leader (OTL) who covers a team from Swansea and Gorseinon Ambulance Stations of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) within the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST). She recently attended an Empowered Conversations course along with her colleagues and here she tells us how she will use what she learnt in [...]
Kirsty Day, who cared for her dad, who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s when she was just 24, is opening up about her relationship with him this Dementia Action Week. The theme of this year’s campaign is having a conversation with a person with dementia – and here she talks about her difficulties [...]
MANCHESTER City Council has become the first in Greater Manchester to allow staff to have time out to attend a carers course to help them improve communications with loved ones living with dementia. The council set up a four-week training course in conjunction with Empowered Conversations – a dementia communications provider that helps people [...]
Physiotherapist Clare Tallis has worked alongside people living with dementia in a professional setting on the stroke ward at Wythenshawe Hospital – but it was not until she became a carer for her mum that she realised there was a lot more to learn about communication with a person with dementia – and how [...]
We are very proud that Empowered Conversations steering group member and friend of the team, Dr Joy Watson, is featuring in the hit Channel Four show, The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes. The new series is filmed in the UK’s first ever restaurant staffed by people living with dementia - as a way of showing [...]
We are delighted to announce that a member of the Empowered Conversations team has been selected to present our dementia communication skills training, developed in partnership with University of Salford, at an international conference in Berlin. The ninth World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies in July will bring together more than 5000 researchers [...]
We are delighted that Empowered Conversations, the dementia communication training programme developed by Six Degrees and the University of Salford, is set to be showcased at a leading dementia charity’s national conference. The Alzheimer’s Society’s annual conference in London (May 21-22) takes place during Dementia Action Week. Dr Lydia Morris, research fellow from the [...]
We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new project that aims to help people living with dementia in Salford by offering free advice and support to family carers. Our Empowered Carers project will complement our existing Empowered Conversations dementia communications workshops by offering one-to-one support to carers; giving them an opportunity to access [...]
We’re delighted to welcome Rachel Yates Hoyles as the leader of our new project for 2019 – Empowered Carers. The project will complement our existing Empowered Conversations dementia communications workshops by offering one-to-one support to carers and giving them an opportunity to access tips on ways to cope and a chance to connect [...]
Our Charlotte was a double award winner at the Heart of Salford awards – here she tells us about the experience. Getting a nomination at the Heart of Salford awards for the work that I do with the Empowered Conversations project run by Six Degrees was an amazing surprise. I was convinced that there [...]