Prompt Categories

Thoughtfully curated questions designed to spark meaningful conversations and preserve precious memories.

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People who Shaped Me

Who believed in you before you believed in yourself?

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Celebrations & Milestones

Time-capsule messages for future events map directly to legacy documents used in dignity/life-review approaches, providing enduring connection at key family moments.

Family & Relationships

Life story work strengthens person-centred care and improves communication between residents, relatives and staff by supporting identity expression.

Health, Resilience & Growth

Reminiscence and cognitive-stimulation styles support mood/communication and can improve cognition and quality of life; they normalize challenges and model coping.

Hobbies, Work & Passions

Prompts about interests and music cue autobiographical memory; music-evoked autobiographical memories are potent, vivid and self-relevant, boosting engagement.

Reminiscence & Life-Story

Structured reminiscence produces small but meaningful gains in quality of life, communication, mood and sometimes cognition—especially in care-home and one-to-one formats.

Wisdom & Life Advice

Legacy-creating life review (e.g., Dignity Therapy) is acceptable and helps with meaning, generativity and aspects of psychological well-being for patients and families.

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