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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