Dementia expert Dr Maggie Ellis shares creative ways we can stay connected without relying on speech in her course - Adaptive Interactions! We are very proud of the work we have done with Dr Maggie Ellis on our Moving Beyond Words course, particularly as it has benefitted so many people living with dementia as well [...]
Family Carergivers of people living with dementia have been offered a unique opportunity to attend Adaptive Interactions training.Having already completed Empowered Conversations and Moving Beyond Words communication courses, 5 family carers were invited to take part in a ground-breaking training and research opportunity with Dr Maggie Ellis from the University of St Andrews. Maggie’s work, [...]
Dementia service now offering more support than ever to people in Salford! Dementia Support Service has expanded the range of support available for people affected by dementia in Salford. Our new referral form acts as a one-stop-shop for the entire service, from one to one online person-centred counselling & coaching support for carers, peer support [...]
We are always looking at ways to make sure that the courses and resources that we offer are the best they can be at supporting carers of people living with dementia. The Empowered Conversations course has been designed to enable carers to establish and maintain good communication and relationships with those they support. Through [...]
We are always looking at ways to further support family carers, those people living with dementia, and professional carers, and our new pilot project ‘Moving Beyond Words’ is the next training course that we will be adding to the Empowered Conversation package of resources - something we are really excited to share. Ironically, there had [...]
‘I love to see the joy in their connection’ Clare Tallis Thanks to recent National Lottery funding after our move to join AgeUK Salford last November, the pilot of our new Empowered Movement programme has well and truly taken off. The sky really is the limit as we continue in our mission to support as [...]
Families have been transforming their living rooms into dance floors every week with DJ Ged’s virtual ‘Escape to The Disco’ sessions, which we started back April 2020 in response to Covid and to help keep loved ones connected during lockdown. Care home residents and their relatives are able to tune into the hour-long Zoom calls to [...]
Families are connecting virtually on the dancefloor with our ‘Escape to the Disco’ sessions Grab your handbags, put on your dancing shoes and meet us on the dancefloor for our ‘Escape to the Disco’ sessions. In our eyes, anywhere can be a dancefloor, whether that is your living room or kitchen or the care home [...]
Empowered Conversations brings you interactive talks from those affected by dementia and from practitioners, researchers and people with lived experience. It is more important than ever that practitioners, academics and people with lived experience feel supported and informed to enable people living with dementia to continue to live the life they want for longer. [...]
A generous Salford ice cream man made some extra stops on his round to surprise people living with dementia and carers and treat them to a cone. Peter Schiavo teamed up with us at Empowered Conversations to make surprise ice cream deliveries to mark national Ice Cream Day on July 19, and got other ice cream [...]