Record your journey.
Leave a legacy.
My Life’s Journey app uses reminiscence therapy to guide users to record and reflect on moments that weave together the story of their life.
Benefit from taking a moment to reflect on our own past, as well as connecting more deeply with our loved ones, through the process of sharing memories on My Life’s Journey app.
Created using
Reminiscence Therapy
My Life’s Journey has been created using Reminiscence Therapy - a common method used by people living with dementia, that initiates discussion of past events and experiences.
Answer 50+ open
ended prompts
The 50+ open ended prompts are designed to tease out long held memories to give both ourselves and others a better understanding of who we are.
Designed for and by Kiwis
My Life’s journey is the first kiwi built app of its kind - designed to empower every New Zealander to record their life’s story, using a guided, user-friendly platform.
Reminiscence Therapy
A common form of therapy for people living with dementia, Reminiscence therapy is a psychosocial intervention that involves discussion of past events and experiences, using tangible prompts to evoke memories or stimulate conversation, and has been used as a means to reduce loneliness, anxiety and agitation.
Research indicates that the best evidence for its effectiveness is when the person has a life story book, which has shown results in improved quality of life.
Digital life story books add further to the benefits of conventional paper books, with potential for music & narration giving greater power to memory triggers.
How
How My Life’s Journey works
While we believe that the app is intuitive, please see the diagram for anything you may be uncertain about.
Get started
Download from the App Store or Google Play. Follow our login process and then edit your profile.
Start adding your memories
Record
If you know what you would like to record first get started by clicking on “+Add Memory”.
Or search through our categories and prompts to get inspiration.
Add your memory
Add images, sound clips, notes and more and then save them to a specific dates and categories.
Reflect
Review & use
Review your memories through the different categories or in chronological order on your timeline.
Record & reflect on the moments that weave together the story of your life.
The story of ‘My Life’s Journey’s’
My Life’s Journey app was founded by Alister Robertson, who at the age of 60 was diagnosed with early onset dementia.
As part of his therapy, Alister participated in a 12 week course whereby people living with dementia are encouraged to recall moments in their life, and record them in a paper based format - known as reminiscence therapy.
Recognising this was a great tool for not only people living with dementia, but for the wider population as a whole, Alister set about creating an app whereby users could easily store not only written memories, but also upload photos and audio.
This has been a passion project for those involved, and we hope for it to be widely adopted across New Zealand.
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