Goals:
To create a robust program of ideas for senior living facilities to engage, inspire,
and encourage members to remember and reminisce and share their memories
and experiences with their family, friends, and fellow members.
Benefits:
The benefits to preserving memories are huge:
- Benefits to seniors
- Helping them to “live in the past”—a happy, comfortable time for them
- Proving them an outlet for their thoughts and feelings
- Getting memories “out of their heads”
- Preserving memories for their family
- Increasing cognition
- Helping to monitor and track cognition
- Possible partnerships with organizations like Story Corp, a place to share and record stories
- Benefits to family
- Providing access to and preserving memories
- Saving time by having professional help accessing, recording, and preserving memories
- Helping to organize memorabilia
- Encouraging seniors to organize and pare down collections
- Benefits to senior living center team
- Providing opportunities for activities
- Helping members to “live in the past”—a happy, comfortable time for them
- Increasing and preserving members’ cognition
- Generating income
Short Bio
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Fill out our printable questionnaire.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: A 60-minute interview with one of our writers, from which we will create a double-sided, 1000-word, beautifully designed keepsake story. $800
Journals in a Jar
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print and fill out prompts on sheets of paper, then place in a keepsake jar.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We can interview the senior, then transform the letter into a beautifully designed keepsake: $200
Letter to a Loved One
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print our template and compose a heartfelt letter to a family member or friend.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We’ll help you write your letter, then create a beautifully designed keepsake to gift: $100
Milestone Letters
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print out milestone letter templates (letters to be opened by a loved one upon their confirmation, driver’s license, graduation, college graduation, first job, marriage, and/or birth of babies) and fill them out.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We can interview the senior to write the letters, then create a set of beautifully designed milestone letters to gift: $200 per letter
Life Timeline
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print and fill out our timeline form.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We can interview the senior and create a timeline of their lives. $300
Family Tree
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print and fill out our family tree template.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We can interview the senior and create a family tree going back several generations. $300
Recipe Collections
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print and fill out our recipe card template.
- Workshop $49 per person, includes up to three DIY projects
- Keepsake: We can help seniors to organize and gather their favorite recipes in 10 one-page recipe “cards.” $1,000
Kiss Goodbye
We can work with members to craft a one-page memory sheet that can be shared with their family on their passing. $800
- Print-at-home, do-it-yourself version: Print out our template and fill it out.
- Keepsake: We can interview the senior to write the letter, then create a beautifully designed version: $200
Books
We can help seniors write, create, and publish their books such as:
- Memoir
- Business Books
- Family History
- Prayer Books
- Novels
- Children’s Books
Our packages include:
- Picture books – up to 36 pages – $3,900
- Pocket books – 37-100 page – $7,900
- Novels – $7,900
- Main books – 100-160 pages – $9,900
Coloring & Activity Books
- We can take the senior’s art and/or photos and transform them into five coloring/activity sheets that the senior can use and print and share. $275
- Mid-level option: We can gather many of the sheets into a 24-page coloring/activity book. $800
- Top-level option: We can use their unique family information to create puzzles, such as crossword puzzles and word searches. $1,000
Your Favorite Things
- Keepsake: We can work with seniors to record some of their favorite things. $200
Printing and Distributing
- All these books will be uploaded to our printer/distributor and can be printed.
- If the member wishes, we can make them available for sale on Amazon and anywhere books are sold.
- All books will be considered for our Bright Communications program—featured on our website and in our catalog!