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“Hexen, Wunderkammern und Modenarren”
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Photo © Humboldt Stiftung / Jörg Scheibe
Photo © Humboldt Stiftung / Jörg Scheibe
An interview with the gerontologist and traffic researcher Georg Rudinger from Bonn Universiy about the preference of older people for cars, the electric bicycle boom and the future of mobility.
Photo © Fotolia/Volker Witt; ADAC
Singing, dancing and playing with a robot? Even in a dementia living group? What many people can’t really imagine is currently being tested at Diakonie Altholstein in Kiel.
Negative age patterns still predominate. They shape the world of work and health care, thinking and behavior. What consequences this has and what can be done about it is discussed by an international team of authors, the results of which I present here.
„I can do natural sciences, I like natural sciences” – this is the feeling that the “House of Little Researchers” Foundation wants to convey to children. How they do it, I describe in my article „Chain Reaction for Life”.
New beginnings in Africa: In a report on the Berlin Demography Forum 2018, I discuss what must happen to enable young Africans to have a future worth living in their homeland.
Unlike in the past, three generations in a family are now the norm and even four-generation constellations are no longer uncommon.
„The grandparents are coming” is the title of my report on the findings of a new field of research.
The hands-on-exhibition „Ey Alter“ – currently hosted in Berlin – invites visitors on a voyage of discovery into their own future. My experience report can be found here.
Frail was yesterday: Experts recently explained how strength in old age is possible at a symposium in Berlin.
Sociologist Cordula Kropp explains in an interview what older people think of robot cars, smart homes and the increasing digitization of everyday life.