Empowered Conversations

14/04/2026

Personal care and dementia - support for family carers
Monday 27th April 2026, 2-3pm

Presenters: Jennifer Bray, Research Assistant, and Thomas Morton, Research Associate, Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester

Description: Hear from the Association for Dementia Studies about the resources they co-produced to support family carers as part of their ‘Crossing the Line’ project around personal care and dementia. You’ll find out about the research behind the resources and get a flavour of the range of resources freely available to family carers via their dedicated new website, including short video clips from carers sharing their own experiences.

Learn about ‘Crossing the Line’, a project that offers free, co-produced resources to support family carers who are providing personal care

01/04/2026

Empowered Carers offer one to one dementia focused therapeutic support for family caregivers.

Based on the New York University Caregiver Intervention, this supports families to live as well as they can with a dementia diagnosis.

This keeps people well within their caregiving role.

This keeps families together for longer.

The flexible online or phone sessions offer space for carers to pause, reflect, identify their own solutions, think about their own self care and prepare for the next change that dementia may bring.

I've said all of that, just to say a huge thanks to the Empowered Carers team, the work you do really does change lives.

So I nominated you for a Dementia Community Award and you've been shortlisted!!

25/03/2026

What a treat, a dementia friendly performance of Eric and Ern at The Lowry!!

This was the culmination of 5 years working with the Lowry team to increase accessibility for families affected by dementia. The whole team was brilliant, the volunteers worked incredibly hard to make sure that people were welcomed, supported to the theatre and had a lovely visit. Eric and Ern even came on late to allow latecomers to get to their seats!

We've spotted a few improvements to make but people had a brilliant time. We had people in from all over Greater Manchester, from care homes, from Together Dementia Support, from Aspire Care and Support, from the Age UK Salford and Trafford day centre.

A group from Ashton shared how great it was to come along to the theatre for a , their group sat at the front and laughed and sang throughout.

Somebody else with dementia told me that it had been a real treat to visit, another person shared how she had visited The Lowry when it first opened with her husband, 25 years ago!

A huge thanks to everyone who supported, promoted, came along and especially to the wonderful people at The Lowry.

18/03/2026

Call out for blokes that care - A Dementia Adventure Conversation about Men and caring happening Monday 30th March, 12pm - 12.30pm.

Very long link below:

Join us every month on Facebook for Unpacking Dementia, our new monthly series where Ruth tackles some of the topics we deal with everyday.

18/03/2026

This looks amazing. Really excited for the performance of Eric and Ern next week.

It's an absolute sell out and is the culmination of several years of commitment from the Lowry team to increase accessibility for families affected by dementia!

Together Dementia Support Age UK Salford and Trafford Aspire Care and Support Salford Institute for Dementia Springboard Oldham Dementia Carers Support Wigan and Leigh Carers Centre Bolton Dementia Support

17/03/2026

🧔 Men’s Health Community Event – Free to attend

Join us at Pendleton Gateway on Wednesday 18 March (10am–1pm) for a relaxed event focused on men’s health.

💪 Fitness circuit
💬 Health lounge with professionals
🤝 Support from local wellbeing services

Take a little time out for your health – everyone welcome.

16/03/2026

We offer caregivers of people with dementia communication courses to support them to stay connected with their family member.

Courses are offered to family caregivers across Greater Manchester, UK.

Courses offer a space to pause, think about how dementia has changed communication (along with roles, relationships, families, life!) and try out some different approaches to improve connections.

Self-care is an essential course element that runs throughout all 6 sessions.

Courses are facilitated by people with lived experience.

Courses help carers to think about the small changes they can make around communication.

They can help people to accept their life with dementia.

Courses provide opportunities to meet and stay connected with others in a similar position.

10/03/2026

Interested in supporting around 's and ?

MAC (in ) are looking for people who would like to take part in clinical trials researching potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

To find out more -

MAC are running a clinical trial to test a new medication on people with Alzheimer’s Disease & Mild Cognitive Impairment.

09/03/2026

The Empowered Connectors (Carers voice group for family caregivers of people with dementia), listened to some of Baroness Casey sharing her interim findings from her review of Social Care.

Why do so many people with dementia leave hospital in a worse state then when they entered, making it so difficult for them to return home?

In this short clip, Justine shares her experience in response to the words of Baroness Casey.

https://youtu.be/QsxiI9urWek

Please share your thoughts here!

Empowered Connectors are a carers voice group for family caregivers of people with dementia in Greater Manchester. They meet monthly to share their experien...

08/03/2026

Baroness Casey's on the case to sort out the 'bun fight between health and Social care that happens when families get a dementia diagnosis'.

Read more here ...

Head of government-commissioned review says adult social care is held together by ‘sticking plasters and glue’

06/03/2026

I went along to the Alzheimer's Society Neighbourhood Health event in Manchester this week.

Listening to the speakers share the results of a 'Lived Experience Survey from 2025' validated the work we've been researching, developing and delivering for the last 10 years across .

Our team deliver a grant funded programme of work that enhances commissioned services and improves and for affected by .

We offer family caregivers 3 pyscho-social communication courses, with Empowered Conversations, a follow on course - Moving Beyond Words and thanks to Dr Maggie Ellis MBE we can also offer the Adaptive Interaction course! Our courses follow the changes in communication that dementia can bring.

We offer professionals working in this area, dementia and communication workshops and a range of communication courses.

We provide one to one dementia focused support for family caregivers. This supports families affected by dementia to stay together doing the stuff they want to for much longer.

We support a monthly carers voice group, Empowered Connectors, and a monthly bereavement group.

Like many working in this area, the Empowered team all have lived experience and has amassed a wealth of experience, knowledge and skills around dementia, communication, connection, support, grief, end of life and bereavement.

05/03/2026

Love getting a 5 Star rating from Trustpilot

"This course has taught me how to have better communication with my mum. It was lovely to speak to people. Listening to their stories really helped. A lot of good advice and tips from our course leaders. I now know of other courses etc. that are available."

We have a fantastic team of individuals with lived experience delivering our communication courses!