Meet the Empowered Connectors
Empowered Conversations has launched a new programme that is set to increase support for people caring for loved ones living with dementia from their peers. The Empowered Connectors programme invites carers who have been on the Empowered Conversations journey [...]
Local Team Launch Research on Helping Carers for People Living With Dementia
The Empowered Conversations team has secured National Institute for Health and Care Research funding to run a research trial in Greater Manchester. Families of people living with dementia are being invited to join the trial and sign up for an [...]
Back in the Boats : Dementia Action Week
After a two year ‘gap’ we’re getting back in the boats for the Annual Age UK Salford Boat Race. The event will take place during Dementia Action Week on Saturday 21st May, 1 – 5pm at Helly Hanson Watersports Centre [...]
Meet Our Research Associate
Cassie Eastham joined the Empowered Conversations Research team at the University of Manchester in November 2021. Tell us a bit about your background. I’m an occupational therapist by profession and have spent the last 10 years working in the Wigan [...]
Empowered Conversations has been developed by Six Degrees Social Enterprise and The Institute of Dementia at the University of Salford. It is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and Innovate UK.