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