October 25, 2009
A new blog, SimplePhotoGifts.com, is offering creative gift ideas for using your photos in new, more meaningful ways. SimplePhotoGifts.com encourages amateur photographers to get lasting memory value from photos by creating gifts that people can enjoy on a daily basis. The blog’s fresh perspective includes a recent post on the value of creating a photo memory book for Alzheimer’s patients and directions for building it online.
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. 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 or a personalized photo day planner from current family photos together with old pictures and clipping from family albums. When someone visits your loved one, they can share the memories together, page by page.
The blog includes how-to ideas for using digital photos (that otherwise linger in cyberspace storage) to make thoughtful and inexpensive photo books, photo calendars, photo planners, custom dry erase boards, photo greeting cards and other photo gifts that keep memories alive. SimplePhotoGifts.com gives readers a fresh perspective on how to get more enjoyment from the events in their lives through the photos they have taken.
“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,” according to a comany spokesman. “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 digitally create a memory book from current family photos together with old pictures and clipping from family albums. When someone visits your loved one, they can share the memories together, page by page.”
The post offers specific tips for gathering photos, digitizing old pictures and other materials, and organizing sections of the book. It walks readers through the process of planning and creating the book, including how to plan book segments for each stage of the person’s life. Suggestions in the post include tips on involving members of both the immediate and extended family to help everyone feel that they can play a part in reviving the individual’s memory.
Robinson suggests that either a photo memory book or a photo day planner would be equally appropriate for the patient. She covers the sizes and costs involved in either a hardcover or softcover photo book, with prices starting as low as $6.95 for a 20-page book that could easily include 40-50 photos plus text. In recommending a custom photo day planner, Robinson offers ideas for personalizing the planner with birth dates, anniversaries, reminders, personal messages and even phone numbers to help the patient stay connected to their family, friends and memories.
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