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Serve Reminiscence for Elders Along With Hotdogs on Memorial Day

May 27, 2021

Reminiscence isn’t new. Before the printing press, storytellers and bards were how history was recorded-

 

Oral storytellers gave us the Odyssey and other valiant tales.Ulysses and Penelope may be coming to your Memorial Day Barbecue this coming weekend.

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But storytelling only works if the teller remembers the lines. Family history has to be captured when the older person still remembers. So holiday events are a perfect time to tap into that font before it flickers.

Tips to Capture Elders Stories

Here are some tips to use if they want to capture these family tales during Memorial Day weekend with aging parents—a perfect time to do this. Use empathetic listening if they can. Make all the messages you are are giving the older person— tone, how fast you speak, how they are sitting- say, “I want to listen to them.”

Ask questions that prompt the story

But don’t make judgments. If there are going to record the family tale, do it in a way that doesn’t distract or stop the older person from talking.

Start somewhere. If the elder isn’t going to tell stories on his or her own, start the story .

See if they will follow along.” Did you go to Memorial Day parades when you were a kid or march in one after the war ( pick his war).” Did your parents have barbecues to start the summer ?”. “What was it like being drafted into to service ? Where did ou serve?

Music is just next to memory in the brain .

 Alive Inside  and can be used for elders with dementia. So 50’s Rock and Roll, Little Richard , Bill Haley and if they are older the Four Freshman. Play elders music at your event and ask older vets or their wives or widows for stories of the Vietnam War, Korean War or Iraq.

 Two technology tools to help you with Remiscence for your older client

Story Worth    

Story Worth is a legacy building tool that can help families create a book of memories through weekly easy prompts of questions to ask the older person  the create a weekly story about their life resulting in a book after one Year . My daughter gifted it to her Dad and he and the whole family loved the legacy book that was created

 

Quick Voice Recorder to catch the memory on your phone  and used Dictation  to transcribe the memories into written word to print.

Check out my Book Handbook of Geriatric Care Management with more tools for legacy building written by David Lindeman Director Of the Center for Technology at UC Berkeley and Julie Menack of 21 st Care Solutions

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