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 [...]
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 [...]
Trial of Empowered Conversations Dementia Carer Training: to enhance relationships and communication between family Carers and people living with dementia. The Trail (Randomized Control Trial) followed earlier studies (see below) that looked at how the course works and what it includes. This latest project was a “feasibility study” looking at the practicalities of running a [...]
Empowered Carers provide one to one dementia specific therapeutic support for family caregivers. In April 2022, the team started to deliver Empowered Carers session in Bolton. Caregivers completed a set of questions on Session 1 and again on Session 6. Early results from the first 10 Caregivers completing Session 6 suggest a reduction in [...]
< back to Library Family caregivers of people with dementia can find the impairments in their relative’s ability to communicate an enormous challenge. Peer facilitated educational interventions are a potentially efficient and effective way to address these complex communication issues. This paper examines the processes required to support the development of [...]
< back to Library Although caring for a person with dementia at home can be rewarding, for many carers it can be a significantly stressful experience (de Vugt & Verhey 2013; Robertson et al 2007). Stress can become particularly apparent as the person being cared for starts to require ever high [...]
< back to Library Around 60% of people with dementia in the UK live at home. The experience of caring for a family member with dementia can be rewarding and positive, but it can also be significantly stressful. Current healthcare policy is encouraging greater provision to support family carers. Along with [...]
< back to Library Around 60% of people with dementia live at home. The experience of caring for a family member with dementia can be rewarding and positive, but it can also be significantly stressful. Current healthcare policy is encouraging greater provision to support family carers, and online based interventions are [...]
< back to Library A feasibility study of the impact of a communication-skills course, ‘Empowered Conversations’, for care partners of people living with dementia. Published 17th May, 2021https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14713012211018929
< back to Library Caring for a family member with dementia can be rewarding but can also be very stressful. John Chatwin, Rachel Yates Hoyles and Phil McEvoy explain how a new service, offering video- based contact with support workers over the internet, is helping carers in Salford.Download the PDF here. [...]