Label of Project Smart Age

Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald   

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:

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.

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