I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to having a way to remember Alzheimer’s victims, especially since this is the 100th year since the disease was discovered. I was thinking about a quilt, with a block contributed for each person who died from the disease.

However, besides the fact that not everyone can sew, memory loss is such a big part of Alzheimer’s. I kept coming back to the idea of a Memory Album - a page for each person. I’ll have to figure out a way to display the album online.

Perhaps using a photo hosting service like Flickr? Another way to display the pages would be to set up a specific category for them and post them to the site, but that would involve a lot of file handling and the potential for viruses, so I think a photo hosting service would still work best to handle the actual photos or scans of the pages.
If anyone is interested in joining me on this project, please comment below and let me know. I’ll be looking around for the best way to display the album and when I find a solution, I’ll post an update.

Posted by on 11.08.2006 • Uncategorized