Bilder erinnern, mit Senioren sprechen: Eine App

Remembering together – an app connects.

The BayernHistoryApp promotes a shared exchange with older people.

Digital support for relatives and carers: An innovative extension of the BayernHistoryApp helps those affected to activate memories and promotes conversations and exchanges between relatives and carers of people with and without dementia.

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Dementia and us

With the “Dementia and us” 2024-2025 campaign, the Landsberg am Lech District Office is committed to a dementia-friendly society in order to increase dementia awareness in the district.

The Campaign includes three Measures: the Creation one dementia-sensitive Living environment, the Utilization more digital Possibilities and the Sensitization the The public. Pajam Rais Parsi, Manager the Coordination office Senior citizens’ policy Overall concept, developed the digital Measure together with the Association theArtConstructionSite under the Management from Wolfgang Hauck and the Association For each other e. V. in Utting with the gerontopsychiatric Specialist Andrea Birner. You use the digital Platform BavariaHistory and expand them to special Memory pictures and Media.

The partners in the project: Pajam Rais-Parsi, Josef Neumair, Wolfgang Hauck, photo Monika Mölch

Under the motto “Remember pictures, talk to seniors”, the extended app is designed to support relatives and carers of people with dementia in promoting and preserving their memory. With the help of historical photos, tours of familiar places such as schools, churches or village squares and sound recordings – for example of church bells or eyewitness accounts in the local dialect – an interactive approach to one’s own biography is created. The app is supplemented by foreign-language versions for caregivers from abroad to ensure that it can be used by everyone involved.

Especially in old age, when many tasks and distractions fall away, a look back into the past can strengthen us through positive memories and build a bridge to our soul. This is biography work. It takes on a special significance when memory is failing and dementia begins to set in. Looking back at encounters and experiences from the past can really enrich relationships with loved ones and create a positive atmosphere in which even difficult situations can be overcome more easily together. – Andrea Birner

The aim is to encourage older people to talk and exchange ideas with their relatives and carers. Images and media are intended to help activate memories and experiences. The expansion of the app is being launched as a pilot project in selected locations in the district of Landsberg am Lech and is intended to establish itself as a new, permanent service.

This project is supported by the Bavarian Dementia Fund and the Sparkassenstiftung Landsberg-Diessen.

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Implementing agency

District of Landsberg am Lech
Coordination office Overall concept for senior citizens’ policy