While We Still Can · A Remember Me campaign

Before the names go quiet.

A living memoir for you, or for someone whose memory is beginning to fade. Speak the stories. Write the kitchen down. Keep them here.

The letter

We made this because we were running out of afternoons.

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 press the microphone.

The campaign is called While We Still Can because that is the only honest timeline.

A chair by a window in late afternoon light.

01 — The chair by the window

Names go quiet before love does.

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.

Family photographs spread on a wooden table.

02 — The kitchen table

Sit down. Press the microphone. Let them talk.

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 if that’s easier. Speak if the voice still knows the way.

Three generations in a garden.

03 — Three generations

Some stories belong to the family. Some belong to everyone.

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

Three gentle steps. No performance required.

  1. 01

    Open a life book

    For a parent, a partner, a grandparent — or for yourself. A portrait, a name they like, a few facts to hold the spine.

  2. 02

    Speak or write

    Answer a prompt, or ramble. The microphone turns speech into text so nothing depends on typing speed.

  3. 03

    Keep or share

    Stories stay private on the device until you choose to feature them on the public wall.

The Guide · Premium

An interviewer who already knows to ask about the kitchen.

Premium sits with you: it asks the next question, searches a life in ordinary language, and writes a portrait from the stories you kept. Recording stays free.

From the public wall

Featured families

All stories

Maggie

The gravy that kept her in the room

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

The first radio that worked

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

The orange tree in Oaxaca

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

Start at the table. The library can wait ten minutes.

Start a life book tonight.

Sit with them while the light is still in the room. The gravy, the dock, the unsent letter — it all counts.