Know the person behind the care plan
Keepsake Life Stories helps care homes turn residents' photographs, records and memories into private, editable life stories.
Staff, residents and relatives can gather everything in one place, creating a richer picture of the person, more meaningful activities and a lasting book for the family.
Life-story software built for person-centred care
Good care begins with knowing the person: the life they have lived, the people who matter to them, their work, interests, routines, achievements and the ordinary memories that make them who they are.
Keepsake makes that information easier to gather, organise and use. Instead of being scattered across care records, family emails, folders and scrapbooks, it becomes one coherent life story that staff can read, revisit and continue developing with the resident.
A clearer picture for staff
Help different members of the care team understand the resident's background, relationships, interests and experiences.
Meaningful activity for residents
Use photographs, letters, documents and familiar stories to prompt conversation and support one-to-one reminiscence sessions.
A practical role for families
Relatives can contribute photographs, memories and corrections, helping the care home build a fuller and more accurate story.
From weeks of scrapbook administration to a few focused hours
Creating a traditional scrapbook can take six or seven weekly sessions. Staff must collect information from different sources, print photographs, write or type memories, assemble pages and replace them when relatives spot a mistake.
Keepsake brings that work into one editable platform.
With enough photographs and information available, a resident's initial life story can be assembled in around two to three hours. It can then be updated whenever a new memory, photograph or detail comes to light.
- No printing, cutting and sticking each individual contribution
- No starting again when something needs correcting
- No crossed wires between different members of staff
- Unlimited editorial revisions
- Automatic photograph formatting
- Built-in writing support
- One organised story rather than several disconnected records
Care-home staff retain final editorial control throughout.
How Keepsake works
Gather
Add photographs, documents, voice recordings and memories supplied by the resident, their relatives and the care team.
Create
Keepsake helps organise the material into editable chapters covering the different stages and themes of the resident's life.
Revisit
Use the story during one-to-one sessions, family visits, reminiscence groups and intergenerational activities.
Share
Read the finished story on screen, print it within the care home or order an optional full-colour hardback book.
More than an "About Me" record
Care records contain essential information about someone's needs. Keepsake captures the fuller story of who they are.
It can bring together:
- Childhood and family life
- Work, service and achievements
- Homes and places
- Friendships and relationships
- Traditions, celebrations and recipes
- Hobbies, music and interests
- Photographs, letters and important documents
- The stories and everyday details families want to remember
This gives staff useful starting points for conversation while ensuring the resident's experiences are treated as something worth recording and sharing.
Strengthen family and intergenerational connection
Families often hold much of the information needed to tell a resident's story, but collecting it through separate emails and conversations creates extra administration for staff.
Keepsake gives everyone a shared purpose. Relatives can contribute material, younger family members can ask questions, and residents can share experiences that may never have been written down before.
The platform can also support intergenerational projects with schools, volunteers and community groups, turning conversations between generations into chapters of a lasting life story.
A finished life-story book
The result is not simply a folder of uploaded photographs.
Keepsake automatically formats the resident's material into a structured life story that can be edited as often as needed. The finished story can be:
- Read and shared digitally
- Printed in the care home
- Ordered as an optional full-colour hardback
- Given to relatives and passed down through the family
If a resident leaves the home or passes away, their life story can be handed over to a nominated relative through Keepsake's legacy option.
Enrich your activities programme
Keepsake helps care homes offer a life-story programme that is personal, purposeful and produces a tangible result.
For residents, it is an opportunity to be listened to and recognised for the life they have lived. For families, it creates a meaningful way to contribute. For staff, it provides a more efficient way to deliver and manage life-story work.
It also gives prospective residents and their families clear evidence of an activities programme built around individual identity, relationships and meaningful occupation.
Support from the start
Your care-home licence includes:
- Staff onboarding and training
- Setup support
- Multiple resident life-story profiles
- Access for authorised staff
- Family collaboration
- Ongoing technical support
- Optional printed hardback books
Pricing is based on the number of resident profiles required.
Give every resident's story a proper place
See how Keepsake could support person-centred care, save staff time and create something lasting for residents and their families.