TY - JOUR
TI - The Erwin Böhm’s Psychobiographically Model as An Innovative Approach to Seniors with Dementia
AU - Smrokowska-Reichmann, Agnieszka
TI - The Erwin Böhm’s Psychobiographically Model as An Innovative Approach to Seniors with Dementia
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2017
IS - 5 (2017)
PY - 2018
SN - 2353-4745
C1 - 2544-0179
SP - 213
EP - 227
DO - 10.4467/25439561LE.17.013.7988
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/labor-et-educatio/article/psychobiograficzny-model-erwina-bohma-jako-innowacyjne-podejscie-do-seniorow-z-demencja
KW - psychobiography
KW - dementia
KW - reactivation
KW - geragogics