I just heard from the director of the StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative, Dina Zempsky, that all the MLI clips are now clickable on their website www.storycorps.net.
The project began two years ago when StoryCorps committed to making their moving and powerful interview process accessible to people with memory loss. All their facilitators are trained to understand dementia and how to adapt interview techniques for people with memory loss. The StoryCorps website has interview tips for MLI interviews as well, and Zempsky does fulltime outreach to invite people with memory loss to come to the booth — or brings the booth to them.
The stories StoryCorps has cut from these interviews capture the both the ordinariness of people with ML — their passion, humor, regrets, hopes, and everyday tales– as well as their extraordinariness — their fighting spirit and unique view of life.
