Enhancing Life's Experiences

 

Support people with cognitive impairments to Live Well, by celebrating and sharing the stories that make us who we are.

Using digital life stories, staff and families can quickly and easily assist in creating living, interactive books that can enhance wellbeing, communication and person-centred care.

  • Developed in partnership with Clinicians and Service Users

  • Actively used by ATU, community and in-patient teams

  • Loved by staff, family and public alike

Discover our digital life stories webinar

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"It's brought so much understanding and engagement... it's moments like that that you know you come away from you think this is really beneficial and it just aids and recognizes the incredible work that I'm sure lots of teams are already doing but it puts into one place that family can access and that has more scope to grow and evolve."

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"I think there's a distinct benefit using it digitally because we're able to tap into other forms of engagement, we're able to listen to music, we're able to share videos and voice recordings, and the family is able to connect to it and input it consistently."

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"Anyone we talk to about it, staff members, they seem to get it and really buy into the value and the potential of it."

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"It's been just wonderful doing it with people and seeing how much patients have enjoyed it, but also some patients who were saying very little and verbalizing very little, how they've been able to engage in it with different ways so through the music side of things."

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"The visuals on the platform itself are very clear, very digestible, it's not over complicated, it's nice and simple; you can tell there's a lot of hard work that's been done to make it dementia friendly."

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Benefits for the individual

  • Structured and psychological-based help with memory recall and communication
  • Sense of achievement and wellbeing
  • Helps with anxiety, depression and mood changes
  • Sense of familiarity when in an new unfamiliar setting
  • Virtually being connected to family, friends and loved ones 
  • Ability to share their story 
  • Sense of identity / increased personhood 
  • Improved relationships 
  • Shared enjoyment
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Benefits for Carers

  • Improved and structured carer engagement through better knowledge of service users
  • Informed and knowledge based help with activities that will stimulate additional memories
  • Understanding of the person’s needs and wishes, highlights common ground and builds relationships 
  • Assumptions challenged to help if a person becomes distressed 
  • Can support current routines and keep these active for the person 
  • Staff can help to maintain an individual’s personhood 
  • Support the assessment, planning, delivery and reviewing the effectiveness of care
  • Enhanced care worker job satisfaction and dementia training
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Benefits for Clinicians 

  • Improved patient understanding and care.
  • Better communication and behavior management tools.
  • Streamlined care planning and enhanced job satisfaction.
Benefits for the Family

Benefits for the Family

  • Easy to actively engage with the care process, even when remote
  • Intergenerational, two-way communication and connectedness
  • Celebrate their loved one's story in their own words, voice and image.