Psychobiograficzny model Erwina Böhma jako innowacyjne podejście do seniorów z demencją
The Erwin Böhm’s Psychobiographically Model as An Innovative Approach to Seniors with Dementia

Summary/Abstract: The average length of human life is increasing, which means that older people make more and more numerous group of society. Nowadays there are a lot of different activity offers, addressed to older people, including broadly understood education offers. The Universities of Third Age are obvious example here. However, the lengthening life span means also that the number of seniors diagnosed with dementia is increasing. Older people with dementia can and should be included in geragogics initiatives. At pre-dementive (MCI) and early dementia stages it means above all brain training (ROT). Along with the progress of dementia more holistic intervention should be offered. One of them is the psychobiographic model according to Erwin Böhm. Böhm aims at so-called “reactivation of senior’s spirit”, meaning activating senior’s noopsyche (or cognitive sphere) as well as their thymopsyche (or emotional sphere). Therefore Böhm proposes seven steps scale of interaction (that is seven steps of connecting with senior) which allows to define senior’s needs as well as to enhance their competences. Böhm’s psychobiographic model uses in innovative way the biographical work method, adapting it to the situation of seniors with dementia. Thus the senior is not reduced to their diagnosis but is understood as a person, which means as a bio-psycho-social-spiritual entity.

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