Lost History
Life histories exist only in family memory and are rarely passed to care staff.
Know the person, not their condition.
The Problem
Every year
thousands of people move into residential and nursing care often without anyone truly knowing their story.
When a life story isn't known, care becomes generic.
Life histories exist only in family memory and are rarely passed to care staff.
Preferences and personal history live in different people's heads, not in one accessible place.
Without knowing the person, care risks becoming task-based rather than person-centred.
What It Is
Life Stories brings text, images, video and audio together into one multimedia timeline. Families can start building it before admission, so the story arrives with the person.
Add a memory from a phone at the bedside, or sit down at a computer and build a chapter properly.
Text, photographs, video and voice recordings, arranged as a life unfolding in order.
Each story has its own generated QR code, making access simple for visitors and staff.
Regulatory Alignment
Life Stories supports the “person-centred care” quality statement under CQC's Responsive key question, and the equivalent Care Inspectorate guidance.
Care is shaped around the person's history, preferences and routines, not the paperwork.
Residents, staff and families share one space, so knowledge is not held in separate heads.
New staff, agency staff and hospital transfers begin with understanding, from day one.
A Timeline link embeds into any existing care system, at no extra cost and with no integration work.
Use Cases
Structured, gentle storytelling that supports identity, confidence and emotional wellbeing.
Bring schools, volunteers and younger family members into a shared story.
A lasting record of a life, kept safely for the people who come after.
Familiar faces, places and music, ready to hand for reminiscence in the moment.
Honour what matters most, and support families through the hardest days.
Record service, comradeship and stories that deserve to be preserved.
Connect residents with each other through shared histories and interests, and support wellbeing and mental health.
Get to know a family before moving in day, so the welcome feels familiar already.
Give new and agency staff the background they need, so care feels personal from the first shift.
Personas
Loves to talk, remembers everything, and simply needs someone to capture it.
Comfortable on a tablet, happy to add photos, notes and voice recordings themselves.
Already has albums, letters and family trees waiting to be brought together.
Treasures a few precious objects, each one carrying a story worth recording.
Wants to leave something meaningful behind for children and grandchildren.
Gathers what a loved one can no longer easily tell, before those details are lost by time.

The Circle
Invite family, friends and carers to build, collaborate on and share the story.
For Families
Works on any phone, tablet or computer, with no app to install and nothing to learn.
Everything you add is kept safely, so the story stays in the family for good.
The people caring for your loved one understand who they are, not just what they need.
The home creates a private Life Stories page for your loved one.
Photos, videos, voice notes and stories, added from anywhere, whenever suits you.
Staff can see the person behind the care plan, in seconds.
The story keeps growing, and stays with the family afterwards.
Case Study
Eleanor Healthcare Group is the first UK adult social care provider to embed collaborative digital life stories at scale across its homes. Residents, families and care teams build one shared story together, giving staff an immediate understanding of the person behind the care plan and supporting the group's focus on person-centred care under CQC's assessment of responsive, personalised support. Announced on 26 June 2026.
Example Timelines
Families can preview these example timelines before deciding whether Life Stories is right for their loved one.
A family history spanning migration, work and grandchildren, told with memories.

Scan to see the story
A public life, shown as a multimedia timeline, to demonstrate how a story unfolds.

Scan to see the story
A quieter life told beautifully, with the everyday details that carers value most.

Scan to see the story
The one story every person deserves to keep, their own.
Book a live walkthrough shaped around how your registered managers, care teams and families already work. Prefer to share something with families first? Download the family flyer.