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MEDIA RELEASE Aged Care Royal Commission must support life story writing for people living with dementia Sydney, 18 March 2019 – Life Stories Australia, the professional association representing life story writers and filmmakers, applauds the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety for considering how best to deliver aged care services to the increasing number of […]

Life Stories Australia Members’ Forum 11.00 am Thursday 21 March 2019 on Zoom (Members to register with Paul English for meeting invitation) AGENDA 1.    Welcome Chair: Paul English 2.    Apologies 3.    Introductions Members to introduce themselves very briefly (20 – 30 seconds) re their type of business, main type of projects, and what hoping to gain and give from […]

Writing a memoir helps you find your voice, tell your story, and reach out to others. You start thinking about your memories, moments that make you feel young again, wondering: what is the legacy I’m leaving behind?  But how to get started? I speak to many people who want to write their memoir, but they […]

Life Stories Australia’s HEATHER MILLAR works as a volunteer with palliative care patients to record their memoirs. In this article, first published in Health Agenda magazine, she explores the benefits of telling your life story. It was shortly before he died that my father asked my sisters and I to fly to Tasmania to witness his […]

There is an urgent need to introduce life story recording into aged care facilities as part of the patient-centred care of our seniors and people living with dementia. Life story recording includes writing memoirs and life stories, photos books and audio and video recording. Repeated research studies reveal that recording a person’s life story has […]

Able to capture the twinkle in an eye, a mischievous tone, the choking of a tear and the happiness of the biggest laugh, video life stories may be a good deal shorter than a written memoir but they do have their place and do have their clear benefits. From talking about the hardships growing up […]

If you are writing a memoir, you should have not only read a number of other memoirs yourself, but you should inhale as many books about the art of memoir writing as you can. Here’s a list of the best books (and an online course) I’ve discovered about writing memoir and how to get your […]

As we approach Australia Day, I’m putting the final touches on the major assignment for the online Family History Writing course I’m doing at the University of Tasmania. We have to write a short narrative focused on one of our ancestors, a place they lived or an event in their life. The narrative must demonstrate the […]

Now that the clocks have ticked over into 2019, it is the perfect time to reflect on our life during 2018. The special moments, ups and downs, challenges, victories and learnings. It is also a time to commit to implementing important changes in our life—changing jobs, retiring, starting a new course, study, taking up exercise, […]

As Christmas approaches are you struggling to find the perfect gift for your parents or grandparents? Do your Dad and Grandfather have enough socks and undies to last a lifetime and is your Mum’s bookcase and that of your Grannie bursting at the seams with recipe books they never read?  Have you thought of giving […]