Preparing the Alzheimer’s patient’s life story has a two-fold purpose.  It serves as a family memento and a way for caregivers to know more about that person.
As I’ve mentioned before (http://alzheimersnotes.com/treasuring-alzheimers-patients-memories/ ), this is a good way to learn more about your family member’s life.  Their memory often dwells on the past and information you may never have heard before becomes available.
Also, having a scrapbook or photo album of people and places in the Alzheimer’s patient’s life – today and yesterday – helps give the caregiver a way to relate and know what world the person may be living on …read more

Carol Moxely has helped families of Alzheimer’s patients create Memory Albums for and about their family member and raise awareness of this disease.  Her father had Alzheimer’s disease.  Carol made a Memory Album for him and taught others how to do this.
Read more about Carol’s experience and a lovely tribute to her father at:
http://she-lives.typepad.com/she_lives/2006/06/she_takes_a_wal.html