Sozioökonomische Unterschiede in Gesundheit der über 50-Jährigen in Europa – Niedriger elterlicher sozioökonomischer Status und kindliche Gesundheit als Risikofaktoren?

in Vögele, Claus (Ed.) 11. Kongress der Fachgruppe Gesundheitspsychologie. Selbstregulation und Gesundheit. Abstractband des Kongresses. (2013)

Social media use in old age: User profiles, effects, best practices

in Gerontologist (2012), 52(S1), 563-564

Type and duration of working-life non-employment spells predict cognitive function in old age

in Gerontologist (2012), 52(S1), 676-677

Subjektive Ressourcen und Defizite in der Pflege des Ehepartners mit Demenz (Subjective resources and deficits in spousal dementia caregiving)

in Verhaltenstherapie (2011, September), 21(S1), 14-14

Alleviating loneliness in old age with an ICT-based social enrichment programme

Scientific Conference (2011, August)

„I don’t want to break anything!“ – On the introduction of an ICT system in a resident home

Scientific Conference (2011, August)

User requirements in ICT-based social media use: Acceptance of a virtual coach

Scientific Conference (2011)

Technology and aging: Inhibiting and facilitating factors in ICT use

in Wichert, Reiner; Van Laerhoven, Kristof; Gelissen, Jean (Eds.) Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2011 Workshops. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011. Revised Selected Papers (2011)

Extending a literature review, the paper gives an overview of inhibiting and facilitating factors associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) of older adults. The paper ... [more ▼]

Extending a literature review, the paper gives an overview of inhibiting and facilitating factors associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) of older adults. The paper takes the position that there is no prototypical “elderly user” but that there is a wide heterogeneity of personal characteristics such as cognitive and motivational states and experiences in old age. Dependent upon various characteristics of the elderly user as well as the context of application, development and implementation of ICT should follow the desideratum of a differential technology implementation taking an integrative approach by reconciling individual and social as well as socio-political approaches. [less ▲]

Feelings of family caregivers towards the cared-for person with dementia – a micro-analytic approach. Paper presented at the 20th Alzheimer Europe Conference “Facing dementia together”, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Scientific Conference (2010)

Remembering positive and negative life events: Associations with future time perspective and functions of autobiographical memory

in GeroPsych: Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry (2010), 23(3), 137-147

We examined distributions of remembered negative and positive life events across the lifespan in a sample of adults in middle and old age. Distributions of positive, but not negative, life events showed a ... [more ▼]

We examined distributions of remembered negative and positive life events across the lifespan in a sample of adults in middle and old age. Distributions of positive, but not negative, life events showed a significant reminiscence bump, replicating earlier findings. Gender differences occurred with respect to distribution of memories of positive life events of the first four decades of life. Furthermore, we found substantial associations of number and valence of remembered life events with future time perspective and functions of autobiographical memory to create meaning, which remained significant after controlling for age and health. The number and valence of negative and positive life events across the lifespan reflect, to a certain extent, the age and time perspective of the remembering individual. [less ▲]