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Memory Books Offer Positive Results
Alzheimer’s Disease takes away a great deal of a person’s memory 
including those accomplishments and life experiences that made the person who he or she is. A person’s sense of worth is depleted when their memory fails them. You may have read my earlier post about how to put together a memory book for an Alzheimer’s patient. Here is a new study just released for a thesis by Margaret Jeanne Trela at Ohio State University that indicates a photo memory book for an Alzheimer’s patient can help preserve that patient’s sense of self.
You’ll find in the study:
- How to structure sentences and phrases in the memory book.
- How the memory book helped the patient: “The memory book helped the participant in this study to communicate more effectively. Therefore, it helped her, and others, to see that she is still the person that she always was, in spite of the disease.” continue reading
The memory holds our perception of who we are. It tells us where we’ve been, what we’ve done, who we’ve known and how we have viewed the world throughout our lifetime. The most disconcerting thing about memory for someone with Alzheimer’s disease is that what it knows today may be gone tomorrow as if it never existed.
Keeping memories alive with a photo memory book
As a friend or relative of an Alzheimer’s patient, you can spark your loved one’s memory with photos and stories of their life. You can build a digitally-created memory book from current family photos together with old pictures and clippings from family albums. You might even consider making several books, each covering one aspect of the person’s life. When someone visits your loved one, they can share the memories together, page by page.
