Project task
Measurement of (changes in) person-place-relationships
Expertise
Environmental gerontology, concepts and methods of person-environment transaction, transitions in old age, housing, aging in place, relocation, technologies in later life
Biography
Biography:
Frank Oswald, PhD is Full Professor for Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (IAW), Chair of the Frankfurt Forum for interdisciplinary Ageing Research (FFIA) at the Goethe University, Germany and Director of the Center AGING for Early Career Researcher at the Goethe Graduate Academy (GRADE). He is a psychologist by training and author / co-author of several articles in the area of Gerontology and Psychology. His research interests are contexts of adult development, issues of person-environment transaction and transitions in old age, housing, ageing in place, relocation and the role of technologies in later life. He has conducted research in the field of environmental gerontology on the local, national and European level.
Relevant publications
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Chaudhury, H., & Oswald, F. (2019). Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further. Journal of Aging Studies, 51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100821
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Oswald, F., & Wahl, H-W. (2019). Physical contexts and behavioral aging. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.399
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Oswald, F., & Konopik, N. (2015). Bedeutung von außerhäuslichen Aktivitäten, Nachbarschaft und Stadtteilidentifikation für das Wohlbefinden im Alter. [Impact of out-of-home activities, neighborhood and urban-related identity on well-being in old age] Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology & Geriatrics], 48(5), 401-407, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-015-0912-1
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Oswald, F., Jopp, D., Rott, C. & Wahl, H.-W. (2011). Is aging in place a resource for or risk to life satisfaction? The Gerontologist, 51(2), 238-250, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnq096
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Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., Nygren, C., Fänge, A., Sixsmith, A., Sixsmith, J., Széman, S., Tomsone, S., & Iwarsson, S. (2007). Relationships between housing and healthy aging in very old age. The Gerontologist, 47(1), 96-107, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/47.1.96