Technologies for health and age(ing)
The cluster "Technologies for health and age(ing)" conducts interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research into the question of what contribution digital technologies can make to a competent old age. Following the understanding of the EU Green Paper 2021, healthy and active age(ing) means promoting a healthy lifestyle across the entire lifespan. The research focuses on both the professional phase in the context of demography-oriented HR work and the retirement phase. The central questions are to what extent social and technological solutions promote active, healthy and competent participation and self-determination (in the sense of participation) in life and which learning-promoting enabling concepts can support this. Here we start with the individual, researching solutions with a preventive, active, reactive and sustainable character. Our claim here is to pursue a holistic approach. We understand digitization in the context of an active and healthy age holistically. Therefore, we research the necessary enabling structures (e.g., at the organizational level or in the spatial context) and develop practical innovative solutions.
Current main topics:
The cluster investigates both basic and application-oriented the following questions:
- What contribution can digital technologies make to participation and co-determination in old age?
- What individual prerequisites, framework conditions and enabling structures are required for a healthy and competent old age(ing)?
- How should teaching and learning processes be designed to support a competent old age and promote digital sovereignty (geragogy)?
- How should demography-oriented HR work in companies and organizations be designed in the future against the backdrop of the digital transformation in order to promote, among other things, prevention and health promotion, healthy working?