Caring for someone with dementia can make you feel like you’re constantly balancing between tasks and meaning — between caregiving and connection. In this episode, we meet Karen Murdock, founder of Voiced Memories, a digital storytelling platform that blends personal photos and audio narration to reduce isolation and support cognitive health.
Karen shares her own caregiving journey — from supporting a close friend through diagnosis and decline, to creating a practical, deeply human tool that helps caregivers reconnect with the person behind the diagnosis. Together with host Andrew Karesa, they explore how technology, storytelling, and community can reshape the caregiving experience.
In this episode:
• Karen’s personal journey into caregiving
• How Voiced Memories was born from lived experience
• The emotional weight of long-term care
• The power of stories in maintaining identity and relationships
• The three-pillar system: prevention, connection, and early detection
• How technology can enhance — not replace — human care
• An introduction to Cogimetry and the Silver Connection Network
Whether you’re a caregiver, service provider, or innovator, this conversation offers a refreshing look at how memory, voice, and design can bring people closer — even as dementia progresses.
Learn more at:
www.bluebellvillage.ca
https://www.photocollections.ca/voiced-memories