MAPS (Memory Aiding Prompting System), part of the CLever project instantiates many L3D themes such as end user development, situated action (in concert with another CLever project, LifeLine), and distributed cognition to produce what we are calling an Active Distributed Support System. This will be a progress report on my ongoing PhD research, developing systems and tools that assist persons with cognitive disabilities and their support communities by leveraging existing abilities. I will demonstrate the MAPS/LifeLine systems and discuss how my design for the MAPS script development tool for caregivers is an instance of Meta-Design. Finally I will present a set of concepts that Gerhard and I have been working on for some time– the notion of ‘Tools for Living / Tools for learning”