Frank Oswald
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Oswald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Oswald |
| SIGNATURE | OSWALD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3811-1385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Neighbourhood-level age-friendliness in urban environments: Associations with functional independence and physical activity in older adults after a fall
Background: Population ageing and urbanisation are reshaping living environments and raising new challenges for promoting health and independence in later life. Age-friendly city initiatives aim to support active ageing, yet the relationship between environmental conditions, housing factors, and functional outcomes remains insufficiently understood. Methods: This cross-sectional study analysed data from participants of the SeFallED study in Olden…
Validation of the Meaning of Home Questionnaire for People with Dementia
Adapting the Meaning of Home Questionnaire for People with Dementia: Initial Empirical Testing of Practicability and Psychometric Properties
Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor
Using cross-cultural data, this novel study shows an unexpected diversity in housing and cohabitation trajectories among older adults. More research is needed to understand what "aging in the right place" with "the right person" really means and the role of life course trajectories and couple negotiations in such processes. Future research should focus on what comes before and after relocation rather than solely studying the decision-making proce…
Doing time in care homes: Insights into the experiences of care home residents in Germany during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
Residents of care homes across the globe are affected by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as they have been identified as a high-risk group and because they experienced strict social isolation regulations during the first wave of the pandemic. Social isolation of older people with poor physical and mental health is strongly associated with mental health problems and decreased life expectancy. Other research has shown that older people managed to adapt to…
Perceived Housing in Relation to Retirement and Relocation: A Qualitative Interview Study among Older Adults
As people age the home environment becomes increasingly important. Retirement commonly leads to spending more time in one's home, and relocating from your own home in older age could be associated with reduced health or wellbeing. The relationship between home and person is complex and perceived aspects of one's housing such as social, emotional and cognitive ties are considered important factors for health and wellbeing. However, little is known…
Digital (in)equalities and user emancipation: Examining the potential of Adorno's maxim of Mündigkeit for critical intergenerational learning
The widespread use of mobile technologies has penetrated the lives of people across all age groups with the usage of smartphones and wearables appearing "natural" and without alternatives. The digitalisation of everyday life means that communication and negotiation of social and societal meanings are co-constructed by users and mobile technologies thereby blurring the boundary between on- and off-line as well as social and private spheres. At the…
Supported Decision-Making in Persons With Dementia: Development of an Enhanced Consent Procedure for Lumbar Puncture
The right to make autonomous decisions is enshrined in law. However, the question how persons with cognitive deficits can be enabled to make autonomous decisions has not been satisfactorily addressed. In particular, the concept of supported decision-making and its implementation into practice has been poorly explored for persons with dementia (PwD).This article describes the empirical development and implementation of support tools to enhance inf…
An Intergenerational Approach to Perceived Housing
Based on concepts from environmental gerontology and life-span psychology, this study aims at comparing perceived housing and person-environment (p-e) fit across three age groups. Young (20–30 years old; n = 125), young-old (55–65 years old; n = 42) and old-old adults (80–90 years old; n = 21) filled in an online or paper-pencil questionnaire on perceived housing and p-e fit. As expected, ANOVAs revealed significant differences in perceived housi…
Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further
Improved Housing Accessibility for Older People in Sweden and Germany: Short Term Costs and Long-Term Gains
The physical housing environment is important to facilitate activities of daily living (ADL) for older people. A hindering environment may lead to ADL dependence and thus increase the need for home services, which is individually restricting and a growing societal burden. This study presents simulations of policy changes with regard to housing accessibility that estimates the potential impact specifically on instrumental activities of daily livin…
Emotionale Roboter im Pflegekontext: Empirische Analyse des bisherigen Einsatzes und der Wirkungen von Paro und Pleo
Acceptance of Social Robots by Elder People: Does Psychosocial Functioning Matter
Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies
Cross-National User Priorities for Housing Provision and Accessibility — Findings from the European innovAge Project
To develop an innovative information and communication technology (ICT) tool intended to help older people in their search for optimal housing solutions, a first step in the development process is to gain knowledge from the intended users. Thus the aim of this study was to deepen the knowledge about needs and expectations about housing options as expressed and prioritized by older people, people ageing with disabilities and professionals. A parti…
Residential normalcy and environmental experiences of very old people: Changes in residential reasoning over time
Voices on Relocation and Aging in Place in Very Old Age--A Complex and Ambivalent Matter
PURPOSE: This cross-national qualitative study explores how very old people reflect upon relocation and aging in place. DESIGN AND METHODS: Swedish and German data are utilized in this study. About 80 community-living participants, 80-89 years of age, were interviewed with open-ended questions at home by trained interviewers. The interviews were analyzed by using conventional qualitative content analyses. RESULTS: Reasoning about relocation or ag…
Natural Occurrence of Subjective Aging Experiences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Our results demonstrate the benefits of an open-ended approach to a multidimensional understanding of SAEs. Content-related, social-cognitive and social-emotional changes more than functional age-related changes were most important for well-being
Aging Well and the Environment: Toward an Integrative Model and Research Agenda for the Future
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: The effects of the physical-spatial-technical environment on aging well have been overlooked both conceptually and empirically. In the spirit of M. Powell Lawton's seminal work on aging and environment, this article attempts to rectify this situation by suggesting a new model of how older people interact with their environment. RESULTS: The model builds on a pair of concepts: environment as related to agency and belonging, f…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
The Home Environment and Disability-Related Outcomes in Aging Individuals: What Is the Empirical Evidence?
PURPOSE: Building on the disablement process model and the concept of person-environment fit (p-e fit), this review article examines 2 critical questions concerning the role of home environments: (a) What is the recent evidence supporting a relationship between home environments and disability-related outcomes? and (b) What is the recent evidence regarding the effects of home modifications on disability-related outcomes? DESIGN AND METHODS: Using…
Relationships Between Housing and Healthy Aging in Very Old Age
PURPOSE: The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between aspects of objective and perceived housing and aspects of healthy aging, defined as independence in daily activities and subjective well-being. Furthermore, this research examined the comparability of relationships between housing and healthy aging in the five European countries. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data were drawn from the ENABLE-AGE Project, from home interviews with a sample …
Importance of the Home Environment for Healthy Aging: Conceptual and Methodological Background of the European Enable–AGE Project
Currently in Europe as well as in the United States, an increasing proportion of very old people remain living in their homes despite declines in physical and mental health. Together with the fact that the population of very old people is rapidly increasing (Mathers, Sadana, Salamon, Murray, & Lopez, 2001; United Nations Development Programme, 2001), this poses new challenges to societal planning and housing development (Gitlin, 2003). In additio…
Psychosocial Consequences of Age-Related Visual Impairment: Comparison With Mobility-Impaired Older Adults and Long-Term Outcome
Indices of behavioral competence (activities of daily living [ADLs], instrumental activities of daily living [IADLs], use of outdoor resources, leisure activity level) as well as emotional adaptation (subjective well-being, future orientation) were used to investigate the psychosocial consequences of age-related vision impairment in a threefold manner: (a) comparison of visually impaired and unimpaired elders, (b) comparison of visually impaired …
Residential normalcy and environmental experiences of very old people: Changes in residential reasoning over time
Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further
Natural Occurrence of Subjective Aging Experiences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Our results demonstrate the benefits of an open-ended approach to a multidimensional understanding of SAEs. Content-related, social-cognitive and social-emotional changes more than functional age-related changes were most important for well-being
Acceptance of Social Robots by Elder People: Does Psychosocial Functioning Matter
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Psychosocial Consequences of Age-Related Visual Impairment: Comparison With Mobility-Impaired Older Adults and Long-Term Outcome
Indices of behavioral competence (activities of daily living [ADLs], instrumental activities of daily living [IADLs], use of outdoor resources, leisure activity level) as well as emotional adaptation (subjective well-being, future orientation) were used to investigate the psychosocial consequences of age-related vision impairment in a threefold manner: (a) comparison of visually impaired and unimpaired elders, (b) comparison of visually impaired …
An Intergenerational Approach to Perceived Housing
Based on concepts from environmental gerontology and life-span psychology, this study aims at comparing perceived housing and person-environment (p-e) fit across three age groups. Young (20–30 years old; n = 125), young-old (55–65 years old; n = 42) and old-old adults (80–90 years old; n = 21) filled in an online or paper-pencil questionnaire on perceived housing and p-e fit. As expected, ANOVAs revealed significant differences in perceived housi…
Adapting the Meaning of Home Questionnaire for People with Dementia: Initial Empirical Testing of Practicability and Psychometric Properties
Doing time in care homes: Insights into the experiences of care home residents in Germany during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
Residents of care homes across the globe are affected by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as they have been identified as a high-risk group and because they experienced strict social isolation regulations during the first wave of the pandemic. Social isolation of older people with poor physical and mental health is strongly associated with mental health problems and decreased life expectancy. Other research has shown that older people managed to adapt to…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Psychosocial Consequences of Age-Related Visual Impairment: Comparison With Mobility-Impaired Older Adults and Long-Term Outcome
Indices of behavioral competence (activities of daily living [ADLs], instrumental activities of daily living [IADLs], use of outdoor resources, leisure activity level) as well as emotional adaptation (subjective well-being, future orientation) were used to investigate the psychosocial consequences of age-related vision impairment in a threefold manner: (a) comparison of visually impaired and unimpaired elders, (b) comparison of visually impaired …
Relationships Between Housing and Healthy Aging in Very Old Age
PURPOSE: The aim of this work is to examine the relationship between aspects of objective and perceived housing and aspects of healthy aging, defined as independence in daily activities and subjective well-being. Furthermore, this research examined the comparability of relationships between housing and healthy aging in the five European countries. DESIGN AND METHODS: Data were drawn from the ENABLE-AGE Project, from home interviews with a sample …
Importance of the Home Environment for Healthy Aging: Conceptual and Methodological Background of the European Enable–AGE Project
Currently in Europe as well as in the United States, an increasing proportion of very old people remain living in their homes despite declines in physical and mental health. Together with the fact that the population of very old people is rapidly increasing (Mathers, Sadana, Salamon, Murray, & Lopez, 2001; United Nations Development Programme, 2001), this poses new challenges to societal planning and housing development (Gitlin, 2003). In additio…
The Home Environment and Disability-Related Outcomes in Aging Individuals: What Is the Empirical Evidence?
PURPOSE: Building on the disablement process model and the concept of person-environment fit (p-e fit), this review article examines 2 critical questions concerning the role of home environments: (a) What is the recent evidence supporting a relationship between home environments and disability-related outcomes? and (b) What is the recent evidence regarding the effects of home modifications on disability-related outcomes? DESIGN AND METHODS: Using…
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Aging Well and the Environment: Toward an Integrative Model and Research Agenda for the Future
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: The effects of the physical-spatial-technical environment on aging well have been overlooked both conceptually and empirically. In the spirit of M. Powell Lawton's seminal work on aging and environment, this article attempts to rectify this situation by suggesting a new model of how older people interact with their environment. RESULTS: The model builds on a pair of concepts: environment as related to agency and belonging, f…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Voices on Relocation and Aging in Place in Very Old Age--A Complex and Ambivalent Matter
PURPOSE: This cross-national qualitative study explores how very old people reflect upon relocation and aging in place. DESIGN AND METHODS: Swedish and German data are utilized in this study. About 80 community-living participants, 80-89 years of age, were interviewed with open-ended questions at home by trained interviewers. The interviews were analyzed by using conventional qualitative content analyses. RESULTS: Reasoning about relocation or ag…
Natural Occurrence of Subjective Aging Experiences in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Our results demonstrate the benefits of an open-ended approach to a multidimensional understanding of SAEs. Content-related, social-cognitive and social-emotional changes more than functional age-related changes were most important for well-being
Residential normalcy and environmental experiences of very old people: Changes in residential reasoning over time
Cross-National User Priorities for Housing Provision and Accessibility — Findings from the European innovAge Project
To develop an innovative information and communication technology (ICT) tool intended to help older people in their search for optimal housing solutions, a first step in the development process is to gain knowledge from the intended users. Thus the aim of this study was to deepen the knowledge about needs and expectations about housing options as expressed and prioritized by older people, people ageing with disabilities and professionals. A parti…
Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies
Improved Housing Accessibility for Older People in Sweden and Germany: Short Term Costs and Long-Term Gains
The physical housing environment is important to facilitate activities of daily living (ADL) for older people. A hindering environment may lead to ADL dependence and thus increase the need for home services, which is individually restricting and a growing societal burden. This study presents simulations of policy changes with regard to housing accessibility that estimates the potential impact specifically on instrumental activities of daily livin…
Emotionale Roboter im Pflegekontext: Empirische Analyse des bisherigen Einsatzes und der Wirkungen von Paro und Pleo
Acceptance of Social Robots by Elder People: Does Psychosocial Functioning Matter
Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further
An Intergenerational Approach to Perceived Housing
Based on concepts from environmental gerontology and life-span psychology, this study aims at comparing perceived housing and person-environment (p-e) fit across three age groups. Young (20–30 years old; n = 125), young-old (55–65 years old; n = 42) and old-old adults (80–90 years old; n = 21) filled in an online or paper-pencil questionnaire on perceived housing and p-e fit. As expected, ANOVAs revealed significant differences in perceived housi…
Supported Decision-Making in Persons With Dementia: Development of an Enhanced Consent Procedure for Lumbar Puncture
The right to make autonomous decisions is enshrined in law. However, the question how persons with cognitive deficits can be enabled to make autonomous decisions has not been satisfactorily addressed. In particular, the concept of supported decision-making and its implementation into practice has been poorly explored for persons with dementia (PwD).This article describes the empirical development and implementation of support tools to enhance inf…
Perceived Housing in Relation to Retirement and Relocation: A Qualitative Interview Study among Older Adults
As people age the home environment becomes increasingly important. Retirement commonly leads to spending more time in one's home, and relocating from your own home in older age could be associated with reduced health or wellbeing. The relationship between home and person is complex and perceived aspects of one's housing such as social, emotional and cognitive ties are considered important factors for health and wellbeing. However, little is known…
Digital (in)equalities and user emancipation: Examining the potential of Adorno's maxim of Mündigkeit for critical intergenerational learning
The widespread use of mobile technologies has penetrated the lives of people across all age groups with the usage of smartphones and wearables appearing "natural" and without alternatives. The digitalisation of everyday life means that communication and negotiation of social and societal meanings are co-constructed by users and mobile technologies thereby blurring the boundary between on- and off-line as well as social and private spheres. At the…
Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor
Using cross-cultural data, this novel study shows an unexpected diversity in housing and cohabitation trajectories among older adults. More research is needed to understand what "aging in the right place" with "the right person" really means and the role of life course trajectories and couple negotiations in such processes. Future research should focus on what comes before and after relocation rather than solely studying the decision-making proce…
Doing time in care homes: Insights into the experiences of care home residents in Germany during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic
Residents of care homes across the globe are affected by the spread of SARS-CoV-2 as they have been identified as a high-risk group and because they experienced strict social isolation regulations during the first wave of the pandemic. Social isolation of older people with poor physical and mental health is strongly associated with mental health problems and decreased life expectancy. Other research has shown that older people managed to adapt to…
Adapting the Meaning of Home Questionnaire for People with Dementia: Initial Empirical Testing of Practicability and Psychometric Properties
Validation of the Meaning of Home Questionnaire for People with Dementia
Neighbourhood-level age-friendliness in urban environments: Associations with functional independence and physical activity in older adults after a fall
Background: Population ageing and urbanisation are reshaping living environments and raising new challenges for promoting health and independence in later life. Age-friendly city initiatives aim to support active ageing, yet the relationship between environmental conditions, housing factors, and functional outcomes remains insufficiently understood. Methods: This cross-sectional study analysed data from participants of the SeFallED study in Olden…
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (12 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 works) · Aging in place (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 works)