Frequently asked questions
Information and frequently asked questions for participants of the study "survey on the individual living, health and care situation of senior citizens in Dresden aged 60 and above" (LAB60+).
The study is a joint effort of the Center for Demography and Diversity (CDD) at the TU Dresden and the state capital Dresden. The CDD is a competence center of the TU Dresden and offers an open forum for research, consulting, further education and knowledge transfer in the fields of demography and diversity. The following three representatives of the CDD and the associated institutes are working together on this project:
Prof. Gesine Marquardt, Professor of Social and Health Buildings
Mr. Prof. Jürgen Wegge, Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology
Prof. Andreas Seidler, Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine
The aim of this study is to determine how life in Dresden can be improved for senior citizens.
The survey focuses on information about you as a person, your living situation, social contacts as well as your activities (e.g. leisure time and voluntary work). We are also interested in your well-being and health. In addition, questions about the COVID 19 pandemic are included, through which we would like to determine the extent to which your situation has changed as a result of the pandemic. At the end of the survey, you have the opportunity to tell us your suggestions and ideas for improving the living situation in Dresden.
You were randomly selected from the population register of the residents' registration office of your place of residence as part of a random sample. The legal basis for this is Section 46 of the Registration Act and a legitimate scientific research interest that is in the public interest. A transfer and information block deposited by you does not apply to authorities and public bodies. Of course, your contact data will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be passed on to third parties without your consent. We will only use your contact data to contact you in the context of the LAB60+ study.
The survey was officially completed. As part of the study, a total of 5,700 residents of the city of Dresden aged 60 and older were contacted via mail and asked to participate in the survey. The questionnaire could be completed both in writing and online. 300 people were additionally invited to participate in a telephone interview.
By taking part in our survey, you are making an important contribution to being able to assess the living situation and expectations of Dresden's senior citizens with regard to the post-occupational phase of life. On the basis of this information, existing offers of the state capital Dresden for the preservation of social participation and a self-determined life in one's own home will be assessed and possibly adapted or supplemented.
There are no risks associated with participation in the study and you will not incur any costs.
Participation in this project is absolutely voluntary. You can terminate your participation in this project at any time and without giving reasons, without incurring any disadvantages. The data collected in the course of this study will be treated as strictly confidential and evaluated for scientific purposes only. All project staff members are subject to the duty of confidentiality.
The administration of the state capital Dresden will not receive any information at any time as to whether you have participated in the study or not.
Thank you very much for your interest. Unfortunately, participation in this project is no longer possible. If you still have something to tell us regarding the evaluation of the study, please feel free to contact us by mail or e-mail
postal address: Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden
phone: 0351 3177 443
e-mail: karla.romero_starke@tu-dresden.de
In the study, data is collected in paper form or by means of a digital or telephone survey. All potential participants receive a personal code, which only enables the allocation of the data to the Dresden districts (e.g. a person living in Striesen receives the code: ST 0001). In addition, the data collected is pseudonymized by this code, which means that neither your name nor any other information that would allow your identity to be determined is contained in the data set. If you participate in the survey in paper form, this code is already noted in the header of the questionnaire.
As part of your consent to the project, personal identifying data (full first and last name) will be collected on the consent form. These will be sent to the survey office of the study (contact: Dr. med. Daniel Kämpf; Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus of the Dresden University of Technology, Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden) and stored with your address provided by the Dresden data registration office. This personal data is kept securely there, or stored electronically, strictly separate from the research data - i.e. the information from the questionnaire. Your contact details are not accessible to the staff of the evaluation center and are only used to contact you in the context of a follow-up survey, if necessary.
The research data is stored with the personal code in the evaluation center (contact: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Seidler, MPH; Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus of the Dresden University of Technology, Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden). All analyses are performed exclusively with encrypted data to prevent identification of participants. The Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine is responsible for data evaluation and processing in the project as the evaluation center.
All data collected in the study will be used exclusively for scientific purposes. Our cooperation partners from the CDD (i.e. Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology and Chair of Social and Health Buildings) and the state capital Dresden receive anonymous research data for scientific evaluations. The collected data will not be passed on to project externals. After completion of the data collection and evaluation, the completely anonymized data will be used within scientific publications. Your personal data will be stored according to "Good Epidemiological Practice" for 10 years and then destroyed. The data are secured against unauthorized access. All members of the study team are bound to secrecy. The provisions of the Data Protection Act as amended are complied with.
The findings obtained in the survey will be published in a life situation report on this website, probably in early February 2022. Scientific publications produced with the study data will also be published on the project's homepage: https://tu-dresden.de/cdd/forschung/lab60