Research

Dissertations and Habilitations

Current Research Projects

• INNOVAGE
• Ageing is what you make of it (Project Chaning Viewpoints of the Robert Bosch Foundation)
• PSIS: Psychotherapy of Depression in Institutional long-term care
• Awareness of Age-related Change: Transcoop Project
• LateLine: Longitudinal Analysis of Subjective Well-being in Very Old Age
• SenTra: The Use of Advanced Tracking Technologies for the Analysis of Mobility in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Cognitive Disorders
• INSEL: Development of an Assessment Instrument for Quality of Life in Long-term Care Settings

Completed Research Projects (Selection)

• BETAGT: Evaluation of new technologies by residents and  staff in the institutional context (Paul Wilhelm von Keppler-Foundation) and  testing of the transfer to private housing: Final report (in German); Short version of the final report (in German)
• SENSO-AGE: Developmental Impact of Vision and Hearing Loss in Old Age: Importance of Social-spatial and Psychological Resources
• ILSE: Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development
• ENABLE-AGE: Enabling Autonomy, Participation, and Well-Being in Old Age: The Home Environment as a Determinant for Healthy Ageing
• Getting Older in Arheilgen: Publications; Research Report
• Heidelberg 2002: Environmental Preferences and Realities: Stressors, Opportunities, and Perspectives on Living Independently in Old Age: Publications; Research Report
• Relocation in Old Age: An Environmental-gerontological Study on Relocation among Elderly in Private Households in Heidelberg: Publications
• This is my Home: On the Meaning of Home. An empirical Study with Healthy and Mobility Impaired Elderly: Publications
• New Living Arrangments in Old Age: Research Report
• Projects on Vision Impairment in Old Age: Publications
• sentha: Every Day Technology for Senior Households: Publications
• Couple Study of Heidelberg: Publications

Dissertations and Habilitations

• Katrin Claßen: The Role of Personality Related Factors Regarding Older Adults` Attitudes Toward and Evlautaion of Technology: The role of Technology Generations
• Vera Clavairoly: Successful Ageing in the Working Environment: The influence of the SOC-model
• Dr. Eva-Marie Kessler: Psychological Resources and Problems in Old Age (PRP-Age)
• Ute Koch: Understanding the Vital Importance of Favorite Places in the Everyday Lives of Older Adults
• Birgit Kramer: The acceptance of new technologies for caregivers of people with dementia
• Yii-Rong Leu: Understanding Health Care Utilization of the Elderly with Parkinsonism in Taiwan: A Modified Behavioural Model Approach
• Martina Miche: Implications of Awareness of Age-related Change for Self-regulatory Processes in Later Life and Their Mutual Effects on Adaptional Functioning
• Ortrun Reidick: Attitudes Towards Dying and Death in Very Old Age: The Role of Personality, Health and Religiousness
• Laura Schmidt: Performance on everyday technology tasks in old age - Examining the effects of cognitive impairment, interface complexity and technology experience
• Denise Solle: Orientierung im Raum - Eine geographisch-medizinische Studie
• Barbara Steiner: Evaluation von Demenzwohngemeinschaften
• Markus Wettstein: Zusammenhänge zwischen kognitiver Leistungsfähigkeit, Sensorik und Mobilität im Alter