Vivid-Pix, Savannah, Georgia, United States: Rick Voight, CEO

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Rick Voight Chief Accomplishments - Solutions, Research, Speaking, & Education:

1. Rick Voight travels throughout the U.S. to help seniors tell their stories and learn about and recover their past through images, letters, and memorabilia.

Locations include:

1. Senior Living: Cloverwood Friendly Senior Living, the #1 Nursing Home in NY state. Cloverwood is a full-service independent living community located in Pittsford, NY which opened in 2004 as an active, friendly senior living community with a rich selection of programs and activities.
2. Home Healthcare: Thrive Center, a technology testing location for National Institute of Health (NIH). A unique consortium of people and ideas unlike anything in the world, Thrive is a collaborative group of innovators, researchers, and healthcare providers from across the US who are focused on solving challenges and providing solutions for the aging care market.
3. Genealogical and Historical Societies: National Genealogical Society, California Genealogical Society, South Carolina Historical Society, and Rochester Genealogical Society.
4. Libraries: Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, The Power of Story. The ACPL Genealogy Center explores unique state-of-the-art resources for family history research with the largest publicly available research collection in the country; making available, at no cost, records from around the world to aid in personal discovery.
5. Archives: Houston County Archives and Tennessee Archives & Museum.
6. Museums: International African American Museum, Charleston, SC. IAAM is the museum that honors the untold stories of the African American journey at one of our country’s most sacred sites.

1. Photo Reminiscence Therapy: Rick Voight works with medical experts, researchers, and the senior community, including The National Institute for Dementia Education (NIDE), to realize the social and health benefits of photos by invoking memories and connections. Vivid-Pix and partners have published primary research in Photo Reminiscence Therapy that identifies photos that foster reminiscences and decrease social isolation for older adults living with dementia or related forms of memory impairment - info at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/reminisce/ and https://nid.education/nide-publications.html.
2. Family Matters Community Outreach Program: Developed with the National Genealogical Society (est. 1903), Family Matters, a partnership between the National Genealogical Society and Vivid-Pix, provides genealogical and historical societies, libraries, archives, and museums with the tools needed to connect with the public and further how family history helps society – info at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/familymatters/
3. Vivid-Pix Education: Vivid-Pix provides free and low-cost education on topics, such as photo organization, storytelling, genealogy research, photo reminiscence therapy, and more at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/education/.
4. Speaking: Voight frequently speaks at major AgeTech and genealogical seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S., including RootsTech, the largest family history event in the world held each year in Salt Lake City, Utah and On Aging, The American Society on Aging’s annual event, as well as online webinars and seminars.
5. Reunions magazine: Vivid-Pix’s Reunions magazine is a leading reunion planning and celebration magazine for over 30 years. Vivid-Pix expanded Reunions magazine’s online magazine and website presence to be a resource to assist families, class alumni, and military reunion participants to relive the past and make new memories.
6. Rick Voight is the co-creator of Vivid-Pix’s patented AI software: RESTORE restoration software and Land & Sea SCUBA underwater photography software are in use in over 100 countries, enjoyed by young and young-at-heart, individuals, families, librarians, genealogists, historians, and more - info at: www.vivid-pix.com/software.
7. Rick Voight is co-creator of Vivid-Pix Memory Station: A collaboration between Vivid-Pix and Fujitsu (Ricoh), Memory Station is a scanner/software bundle that easily scans and restores precious memories in seconds to save printed photos and documents for future generations before they fade or are lost. It also integrates voice recordings and transcriptions and connects additional functions in one click. Info at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/memorystation/.

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Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix, is an AgeTech maverick, tirelessly working to help older adults learn about their history and combat loneliness, traveling throughout the U.S. to conduct free events at senior living facilities, home healthcare, genealogical and historical societies, archives, and museums, where seniors can relive and recover lost memories and tell their stories. With the motto “Don’t Let Your Memories Fade,” Voight teaches seniors how to scan, archive, and recover images, document and create stories with Vivid-Pix Memory Station, inspiring older adults to learn and document their past for generations to come - tour info: https://www.vivid-pix.com/events/.

A pioneer in imaging technology, Voight is a lifelong photography and imaging visionary from Kodak and Hewlett-Packard, where he was instrumental in creating the Kodak Retail Publishing Solutions Division, connecting home, store, and online to deliver photos and gifts in minutes. He then co-founded Vivid-Pix to restore decades-old photos, bringing back precious memories that were thought to be long gone due to the passage of time or cognitive decline, sharing stories with the new Memory Station with Stories one-click scanning solution specially designed for seniors and the mobility-challenged to scan, restore, and record audio memories and save multiple images, documents, and memorabilia.

Developing AgeTech technologies, Voight worked with The National Institute for Dementia Education (NIDE) to conduct research culminating in the report: “Cognitive Benefits of Photo Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia Patients” which studied the healing power of photos and concluded that Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT) can improve the quality of life, minimize social isolation, and general cognitive performance for those living with dementia or memory impairment. The study was conducted by the National Institute for Dementia Education, the CERTUS Institute, Vivid-Pix, Tellegacy, and achi. See https://nid.education/nide-publications.html, videos: https://www.vivid-pix.com/reminisce/.

Rick Voight U.S. travels include:

• International African American Museum (IAAM): Vivid-Pix Memory Stations are traversing South Carolina with an important initiative at the International African American Museum helping the museum that honors the untold stories of the African American journey at one of the  country’s most sacred sites in Charleston, SC.
•  at one of the most sacred sites in the U.S. “In order to ensure knowledge from memories are not lost, IAAM decided to utilize Vivid-Pix Professional Edition Bundle,” stated Brian Sheffey, Director of the Center for Family History at the International African American History Museum (IAAM).
• Senior Living: Cloverwood Friendly Senior Living, the #1 Nursing Home in NY state.
• Home Healthcare: Thrive Center, a technology testing location for the National Institute of Health (NIH). A unique consortium of people and ideas unlike anything in the world, Thrive is a collaborative group of innovators, researchers, and healthcare providers from across the U.S. who are focused on solving challenges and providing solutions for the aging care market.
• Genealogical & Historical Societies:  National Genealogical Society, California Genealogical Society, South Carolina Historical Society, and Rochester Genealogical Society.
• Libraries: Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, The Power of Story. The ACPL Genealogy Center explores unique state-of-the-art resources for family history research with the largest publicly available research collection in the country; making available, at no cost, records from around the world to aid in personal discovery.
• Archives:  Houston County Archives and Tennessee Archives & Museum.

Rick Voight has also created “Family Matters,” a partnership between the National Genealogical Society and Vivid-Pix to provide organizations with the tools needed to connect with the public; and he also brings families and friends together at reunions with Reunions magazine.

Voight also frequently speaks at AgeTech and genealogical seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S., including RootsTech, the largest family history event in the world held each year in Salt Lake City, Utah and On Aging, The American Society on Aging’s annual event, as well as online webinars and seminars.