Motivation & Co.

Meet the South West Manchester Team

"Being born into a big family in 1972, Trafford Manchester, most of whom pursued careers in the care sector or became avidly involved within the community as volunteers in their spare time, made putting other’s needs before my own became instinctive. Growing up in a big family, dementia became an everyday experience, with three senior members of my family all suffering from dementia, I felt the need to do more. So, when I heard about Motivation & Co. I wanted to get involved. "

"I have had eight years personal experience taking care of my late uncle, who lived with me and my family and had dementia. From this experience, I collected a vast knowledge of the personal and motivational needs of people with dementia. As well as my uncle, we have recently discovered that two other senior members of our family have dementia, fueling the need for me to do more in the Dementia and Care Sector and to make a change to peoples’ lives."

"Seeing Motivation & Co's work first hand in care homes and the impact their sessions have on their clients prompted me to pursue a career with Motivation & Co."

"Due to my personal background and experience, I feel Motivation & Co. is the perfect gateway to exercise my passion and knowledge in this sector and ultimately to improve the standards of peoples’ lives. I am looking forward to meeting new people in the South-West Manchester area and sharing my knowledge, experience and making a difference."

About Motivation & Co. South West Manchester

Motivation & Co. South West Manchester provides specialist recreation and motivation classes for the elderly. Our classes are carried out in Nursing and Residential Homes and have been designed to help residents maintain or improve their emotional and physical well-being.

The benefits to the Care Home are that you are working in partnership with a National Award winning UK company with a proven track record of success, supported by committed and trained Therapists who are fully engaged in our company ethos through continuous training and development.

What is a taster session?

Trying us out by way of a taster session gives you the opportunity to see what we are about and what wedo and more importantly the effect we have on your residents.

The taster sessions are always the same theme (colour) as with this theme, we can quickly adjust dependant on the abilities of your clients without them knowing that we are raising or lowering the delivery level.

All the Motivation & Co. Class materials are specifically designed and produced by the company making it unique to us. Motivation & Co. is fully researched, evidence based and a national Award winning UK company.

What happens after your taster session?

Following the taster session we leave you a couple of days to digest and get feedback from staff and residents to evaluate if this is something you would wish to use on a regular basis. We will contact you to get feedback as you know your residents better than us to see if you had a good response or not.

If you do choose to come on board you will receive a welcome pack and will be booked in either weekly, fortnightly or four weekly same day & time. Each home is different as to how often they have us.

You will also receive an activities task sheet each month form head office via e-mail – these are all evidence based stating what you are working on and made so that they can be implemented without having to go out and buy items to make this activity.

We also hold an activity co-ordinators training day once a year in your area working in partnership with you as part of your team.

We are fully researched by Leeds University and we have developed a Dementia falls prevention programme for the NHS Hertfordshire, we are a registered training centre and all our Motivational Therapists are DBS checked and fully insured.

Our residents are our #1 priority

• Motivation and Co are one off the best to do armchair exercise and quiz with dementia and residential clients. I thoroughly recommend them as they are friendly and kind with all our residents. They are very patient and caring. They also go out of their way to ensure that everyone can join in.

  Carole Brown

• Motivation & Co visit our Home once a month and the Residents look forward to their visit. They are highly entertaining with their sing a longs, games and quizzes, to mention a few. It is not too physical for our Residents and extremely enjoyable.

  Jackie Hodgkinson