LumenLab, the Singapore-based innovation centre for global life insurer MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), today announced the launch of Rememory Stories, a free platform that allows users to capture and share their family history. The interactive platform is free to use online and on mobile devices and is designed to make it fun and easy to uncover, record, and share family histories.

“Her eyes would light up as she began to recount her stories. It meant a lot to her that I had asked her to share these memories. I cherished getting to know my mother in a whole new way.”

Sharlene, not her real name, is 45 years old and has lived overseas for the past 10 years. Having recently returned to Singapore, she is keen to reconnect with her family. In particular, she wants to spend the time she has left with her aging mother in a meaningful way. She is using a new storytelling platform, Rememory Stories, which aims to help people capture their family stories before they are permanently lost.

The platform was recently short-listed at Aging Asia’s “Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards” for the Best Wellness Programme - Community award. Zia Zaman, Chief Executive Officer of LumenLab and Chief Innovation Officer of MetLife Asia, explains: “Aging well is not only about maintaining physical health, but also staying emotionally healthy.” In line with this, LumenLab developed Rememory Stories to help enhance inter-generational connectedness and help address the growing problems of loneliness, boredom and social isolation among the elderly in Asia. “Rememory Stories works because it engages the elderly and creates tangible shared output – the family narrative”.

Yan Ling Chua, 30, tried the platform together with her 61-year old mother: “It was heartwarming to see that ‘aha’ moment when my mother remembered the details of what she wore to a National Day Parade as a performer, some 50 years ago. I learned things about her that wouldn’t ordinarily come up in conversation.”

For more information on the platform, please visit www.rememorystories.com

About LumenLab

LumenLab seeks to go beyond today’s industry, to begin with a deep understanding of people’s lives and lifestyles, and rewrite the role of insurance for Asians in the 21st century. Lumen, a measure of light, symbolises our commitment to illuminating a new path for solving the problems that the people of Asia face today. Through our focus on building new business models grounded in technology and data, we aim to help people achieve richer and more fulfilling lives. To learn more about LumenLab, please visit www.lumenlab.sg.

About MetLife

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world. Founded in 1868, MetLife is a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. Serving approximately 100 million customers, MetLife has operations in nearly 50 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.metlife.com.