While We Still Can · A Remember Me campaign
Start a free, private life book for someone you love.
Free to start. No card needed.
The letter
Dementia does not take a person all at once. It takes the Sunday gravy, then the street name, then the punchline, and one day you realize you have been the memory for both of you.
Remember Me is a quiet place to catch what is still here: a voice in a kitchen, a story about a first dance, the way someone says a grandchild’s name. It is for adult children. It is for partners. It is for the person themselves, while they still want to tell it.
This website is the campaign. The library is the book. Use this site to learn how to sit, to write to us, to meet The Guide. Then open the library and write the first story down.
The campaign is called While We Still Can because that is the only honest timeline.
01 — The chair by the window
A parent can forget the day, the street, even the face in the glass — and still reach for your hand. Remember Me is for that in-between: while the stories can still be spoken, and after, when the family has to keep them.
02 — The kitchen table
You do not need a documentary crew. You need an afternoon, a cup of tea, and a place that will not lose what was said. Type it as they talk, or tap the microphone on your phone’s keyboard and speak.
03 — Three generations
Keep a private life book for the people you love. When a story is ready to travel, share it to the public wall — a living library of ordinary lives, kept with care.
57 million
people were living with dementia worldwide in 2021, according to the World Health Organization.
Every 3 seconds
someone in the world develops dementia. The stories cannot wait for a perfect day.
70%
of care hours are provided by women — daughters, partners, sisters — who are also the keepers of the family memory.
Sources: WHO dementia fact sheet, 3 July 2026; PAHO. Remember Me is not a medical product. It is a place to keep a life.
How a life is kept
01
For a parent, a partner, a grandparent — or for yourself. A portrait, a name they like, a few facts to hold the spine.
02
Answer a prompt, or ramble. Type it, or use your phone keyboard’s microphone, so nothing depends on typing speed.
03
Stories stay private until you choose to share them on the public wall.
The Guide · Coming to Premium
We're building the Guide now: gentle prompts, one question at a time, for when someone wants help telling a story. It isn't ready yet, and we'll say so here when it is. Writing, keeping and searching life books stays free.
From the public wall
Maggie
I don’t have the recipe written down. That’s the whole trouble, isn’t it? Mama never wrote a thing. She’d tap the wooden spoon on the rim and say, Watch my hands.
Hal
In Lagos my uncle kept a radio that mostly coughed. One evening it found a station from somewhere cool and I understood that the world was larger than the compound.
Elena
We ate the oranges warm from the tree, sitting on the low wall, juice to the elbow. I told my grandchildren that sweetness has a season, and they did not yet believe me.
If the app feels far away
Eight questions, including where they grew up. Write in the margins. Bring it to the kitchen tonight.
Letter
If you cannot start a book alone, tell us who you are sitting with. We read every note.
Library
When you are ready, their life book is waiting in the Remember Me app.
Sit with them while the light is still in the room. The gravy, the dock, the unsent letter — it all counts.