Research

This research area is concerned with age-related changes in physical (e.g., chronic disease, functioning, disability, frailty), cognitive (e.g., memory, attention, dementia), and psychological health (e.g., depression, loneliness, life satisfaction, suicidality) in the aging population, especially during the last years of life.

• Research team of Erwin Stolz

This research area is concerned above all with the effects of social factors (e.g., education, income, general living and working conditions) on the psychological and physical health of different demographic groups.

• Research team of Wolfgang Freidl

Basic principles include social norms and values oriented to health and disease. The research area investigates basic principles including age (such as healthy aging) and end of life with regard to cultures of knowledge in social change in order to explore their potentials and limitations for care structures in nursing and medicine.

• Research team of Willibald Stronegger

This research area is concerned with current discourses on end-of-life decisions from the perspective of the Austrian population and the analysis of the healthcare system under National Socialism.

• Research team of Wolfgang Freidl

This research focuses on environmental factors—particularly physical environmental factors such as air pollution (e.g., particulate matter and ozone) and green space (e.g., parks and gardens)—and their association with physical and mental health in diverse populations.

• Research team of Tianyu Zhao