Живот с възрастни хора с деменция – социални, феноменологични и психоаналитични реконструкции
Life with Elderly People with Dementia: Social, Phenomenological and Phsychoanalytical Reconstructions

Summary/Abstract: The analysis unfolds two main aspects. On the one hand, it is assumed that dementia is not only a medical problem but also (in specific aspects) a social problem – in terms of social conditions and environment, biographic situations that influence its development. To illustrate this thesis six cases of living with dementia are shortly described and by “case” here is meant not only the person with dementia but also his/hers social environment/situation in which he/she is living. Interviewing a significant other is the main key to this situation. On the other hand, the article shows how phenomenological and psychoanalytical approaches in interpretation/reconstruction and validation methods are practically helping the person who is taking care in a direct way and the one with dementia indirectly. The transformation of the caregiver in a phenomenologist and a psychoanalyst gives him/her the opportunity to understand him/herself and the one he/she cares for in a new way.

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