Memory Connections

I volunteer at Adoration Hospice, helping with patient activities like bingo and letter writing. I developed Memory Connections there as a longer project patients could work on over several weeks, built around their own stories.

• Volunteers sit with small groups of 3–6 patients at each table
• Patients build their pages from family photos and magazine cutouts
• For patients without photos, we take Polaroid pictures during sessions so they still have images to use
• Over about two months, each patient finishes a full scrapbook

• Coordinate with hospice staff on patient access and safety rules, like keeping scissors with volunteers only
• Bought all of the scrapbooking supplies out of pocket
• Co-lead every on-site session

Next, I want to expand Memory Connections to more patients and more facilities.