LifeBio, Inc., a company that empowers both consumers and residents in senior living communities to record their memoirs, grew 300 percent last year with dozens of independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing communities adopting the life story and reminiscence program. After such a successful 2007, the company has nothing but high hopes for 2008.

The LifeBio Certified Community Program provides easy-to-use tools for people to record their autobiographies in various ways.

Participants can choose to type their memoirs online or handwrite them in a specially-designed fill-in-the-blank guide called the Memory Journal which provides carefully-crafted life questions. Other shorter templates are available as well as specific materials for journaling and conversation starters for people diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. LifeBio.com's online autobiographies can be printed in a hardbound Legacy Book or outputted as an Adobe PDF file.

LifeBio provides intensive training for the staff of communities on reminiscence and also curriculum so residents can take a LifeBio 101 class together and prompt each other to remember more.

The program is also a healthy brain exercise for the residents.

For more information, visit lifebio.com