Fr 6.9. 12:50, Sun 8.9. 16:00
Brucknerhaus, Ars Electronica Center, Sky Media Loft
Ars Electronica, Evangelisches Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen (AT)
Conditions like Alzheimer’s disease affect sufferers’ short-term memory, thought processes, speech, mobility and, in some cases, even their personality structure. The progressive loss of memory (and self-control) is a drastic and currently irreversible change that is a severe blow to the victim as well as his/her loved ones. The 2013 Ars Electronica Festival and the Evangelisches Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen invite festivalgoers to deal with the subject of dementia, which, in light of our aging society, might well become extremely widespread in the future.
Meet Someone with First-hand Experience
Helga Rohra (DE), a woman suffering from dementia, will attend the TOTAL RECALL symposium. The interpreter and author had the courage to go public with her condition. She’ll give an account of life with Lewy-Body-Dementia.
Fri 6. 9. 12:50
Brucknerhaus
Afternoon Info Session: Dementia. Living with Forgetting
How does dementia manifest itself, what is everyday life with dementia like and what does providing care to dementia sufferers entail? Neurologist Klaus-Dieter Kieslinger (AT), gerontologist/psychologist Alexander Aschenbrenner (AT) and Sylvia Boubenicek (AT), head of a daycare center for people with dementia, will address these questions.
Sun 8. 9. 16:00
Ars Electronica Center, Sky Media Loft
