Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald ist Professor für Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft (IAW) am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften und Vorstandssprecher des Frankfurter Forums für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung der Goethe-Universität (FFIA) sowie Direktor des Center AGING der Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE). Er ist Diplompsychologe und Autor / Mitautor zahlreicher Artikel und Buchkapitel im Bereich Gerontologie und Psychologie. Er hat Untersuchungen zu Wohnen und außerhäuslicher Mobilität im Alter in Deutschland und in Europa durchgeführt.
1990 Diplom in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
1996 Promotion in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2005 Habilitation in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2008 Außerplanmäßiger Professor für Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2009 Professor für Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Main
Wanka, A., Schmidt, S. M., Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F.,
Wazinski, K., Slaug, B., & Kylén, M. (2023). Moving in together in later
life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor. Journal of Aging
Studies, 68, 101191, online ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101191
Leontowitsch, M., Putnina, A., Andersson, M.,
Niemistö, C., Werny, R., Sjögren, H., Mileiko, I., Lakševics, K., Pokšāns, A.,
Neikena, M., Orste, L., Malm, C., Oswald, F., Hearn, J., & Krekula, C.
(2023). Participatory action research on webs of caring in the digital age
across four European countries. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults,
ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-03-2023-0020
Leontowitsch, M., & Oswald, F. (2023).
Partizipative Forschung in der Gerontologie. Editorial. Zeitschrift für
Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 56(5), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-023-02217-9
Niedoba, S., & Oswald, F.
(2023). Person-environment exchange processes in transition into dementia: A
Scoping Review. The Gerontologist, online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad034
Penger, S., Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (2023).
Altern im Raum am Beispiel von Wohnen und Mobilität. [Aging in place using the
example of housing and mobility.] In
K. Hank, F. Schulz-Nieswandt, M. Wagner & S. Zank (Hrsg.), Alternsforschung
- Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis [Ageing research – Handbook for
science and practice.], 2. Auflage (S. 411-441). Baden-Baden: Nomos
Verlag.
Wanka, A., Freutel-Funke, T., Andresen, S., &
Oswald, F. (Eds.) (2023). Feeling lonely. A Linking Ages perspective on
the risks for loneliness in early and later life during the COVID-19 pandemic
in Israel and Germany [White paper]. The MINERVA Center for Intersectionality
in Ageing (MCIA). https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.73894
Wanka, A., Urbaniak, A., Oswald, F., & Kolland, F.
(2023). Digital
transformations in ageing societies. Editorial. Zeitschrift
für Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 56(3),
177-180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-023-02186-z
Adams, A-K., Oswald, F., &
Pantel, J. (Hrsg.) (2022). Museumsangebote für
Menschen mit Demenz. Ein Praxishandbuch zur Förderung kultureller und sozialer
Teilhabe. [Museum programs for people with dementia. A handbook to foster cultural
and social participation.] Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Eriksson, E., Wazinski, K., Wanka, A., Kylén, M.,
Oswald, F., Slaug, B., Iwarsson, S., & Schmidt, S.M. (2022). Perceived housing in relation
to retirement and relocation: A qualitative interview study among older
adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health, 19, 13314, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013314
Freutel-Funke, T., Müller, H., Nägler, D., Wanka, A.,
& Oswald, F. (2022). Linking Ages – Reflexive Übergangsforschung in
Kindheit und höherem Erwachsenenalter durch Interpretationen unter anderen
Vorzeichen. [Linking Ages – Reflexive transitional research in childhood and later life
by means of interpretation under different conditions.] Zeitschrift für Pädagogik [Journal of Padagogy], 68(Beiheft), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZPB2201098
Leontowitsch, M., Wolf. F., & Oswald, F.
(2022). Digital
(in)equalities and user emancipation: Examining the potential of Adorno's maxim
of Mündigkeit for critical intergenerational learning. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 983034, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.983034
Oswald, F. (2022). Leben mit Demenz
aus ökogerontologischer Perspektive. [Life with dementia from an environmental gerontology
perspective.] In A-K. Adams, F.
Oswald, & J. Pantel (Hrsg.). Museumsangebote für Menschen mit
Demenz. Ein Praxishandbuch zur Förderung kultureller und sozialer Teilhabe. [Museum
programs for people with dementia. A handbook to foster cultural
and social participation.] (S. 31-38). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Konopik, N., Kaspar, R., Penger, S., Oswald, F., &
Himmelsbach, I. (2021). Advancing Health Literacy measurement in old and very
old age. Health Promotion International, daaa137, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa137
Oswald, F. (2021). Alter und Altern - Anmerkungen zur Unterscheidung
krankhafter und normaler Alternsverläufe. [Age and Ageing – Coments to
differ between pathological and normal ageing.] In J. Pantel, C. Bollheimer, A. Kruse, J. Schröder, C.
Sieber & V. A. Tesky (Hrsg.). Praxishandbuch Altersmedizin [Practice
handbook Geriatric Medicine.] (2. erweiterte und überarbeitete
Auflage). (S. 81-91). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Oswald, F., Klinger, T., Conrad, K., Penger, S., &
Siedentop, S. (2021). Das Recht auf Teilhabe am kulturellen und
gesellschaftlichen Leben im Alter am Beispiel urbaner Mobilität - Eine
interdisziplinäre Positionsbestimmung. [The right to participate in
cultural and social life in old age through the example of urban mobility - An
interdisciplinary exploration.] Psychotherapie
im Alter „Menschenrechte“ [Psychotherapy in Later Life „Human Rights“], 18(1), 43-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.30820/1613-2637-2021-1-43
Urbaniak, A., Wanka, A.,
Walsh, K., & Oswald, F. (2021). The relationship between place and
life-course transitions in old-age social exclusion: A cross-country
analysis. In K. Walsh, T. Scharf. S. Van
Regenmortel, & A. Wanka (eds.) Social Exclusion in Later
Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives. International Perspective on
Ageing,28 (pp. 209-222). New York, London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8_16
Wolf, F., Nauman, J., &
Oswald, F. (2021). Digital social interactions in later life: Effects of
instant messaging on situational mood of older smartphone users. Conference
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
(HCII). Springer Publ.
Andersson, N., Nilsson, M. H.,
Slaug, B., Oswald, F. & Iwarsson, S. (2020). The Meaning of Home
Questionnaire revisited: Psychometric analyses among people with Parkinson´s
Disease reveals new dimensions. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242792. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242792
Andersson, N., Nilsson, M. H.,
Slaug, B., Oswald, F. & Iwarsson, S. (2020). Psychometric properties of the
external housing‑Related Control Belief Questionnaire among people with
Parkinson's disease. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-020-01477-4
Herbolsheimer, F., Mahmood,
A., Ungar, N., Michael, Y. L., Oswald, F., & Chaudhury, H. (2020).
Perceptions of the neighborhood built environment for walking behavior in older
adults living in close proximity. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464820979258
Naumann, D., & Oswald, F. (2020). Wohnen im Alter. [Housing in old
age.] In K. Aner & U. Karl (Hrsg.), Handbuch Soziale Arbeit und
Alter [Handbook of Social Work and Old Age] (2. Auflage)
(S. 369-377). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26624-0_30
Oswald, F. (2020). Zum Verhältnis von Person und
Wohnumwelt in Zeiten von Corona - Anmerkungen aus der Perspektive einer
ökologischen Gerontologie. [On the relationship between Person and home
environments in times of Corona – Remarks from an environmental gerontology
perspective.] ProAlter 03(20), 15-18.
Oswald, F., & Wanka, A. (2020). Zum Dialog von
Psychologie und reflexiver Übergangsforschung – Beiträge aus der Psychologie
der Lebensspanne und der Ökologischen Psychologie. [On the dialoge between
psychology and reflexive transition research - Contributions from a
lifespan and environmental psychology.] In
A. Walther, B. Stauber, M. Rieger-Ladich, & A. Wanka (Hrsg.), Reflexive
Übergangsforschung: Theoretische Grundlagen und methodologische
Herausforderungen [Reflexive transition research: Theoretical foundations and
methodological challenges.] (pp. 81-102). Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
Wanka, A., & Oswald, F. (2020). „Mapping age“ -
das Verhältnis von Altern und Raum neu denken. Editorial. ["Mapping
age" - rethinking the relationship between aging and space. Editorial.] Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und
Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 53(5), 379-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-020-01769-4
Wanka, A., Urbaniak, A.,
Walsh, K., & Oswald, F. (2020). The relationship between housing,
life-course transitions, and old age social exclusion: A cross-country
analysis. Innovation in Aging, 4(Suppl 1), 596. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2002
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
Leontowitsch, M., Fooken, I.,
& Oswald, F. (2019). Learning to Live Alone – The role of empowerment and
agency in the lives of older men living alone. European Journal for
Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 3, 231-246. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela20194
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
Tesky, V. A., Schall, A., Schulze, U., Stangier, U.,
Oswald, F., Knopf, M., König, J., Blettner, M., Arens, E., & Pantel, J.
(2019). Depression
in the nursing home: A cluster-randomized stepped-wedge study to probe the
effectiveness of a novel case management approach to improve treatment (the
DAVOS project). BMC / Trials, 20(424), p. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3534-x
Baisch, S., Kolling, T., Klein, B., Pantel, J.,
Oswald, F., & Knopf, M. (2018). Dynamic interplay between
general experience and robot-specific expertise at older adults' first
encounter with a robot: Role for robot acceptance and implications for robot
design. Gerontechnology, 17(4), 215-231 https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2018.17.4.003.00
Chaudhury, H., & Oswald,
F. (2018). Environments in an Aging Society: Autobiographical Perspectives in
Environmental Gerontology. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics,
Volume 38. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Penger, S., & Oswald, F.
(2017). A new measure of mobility-related behavioral flexibility and routines
in old age. GeroPsych - The Journal of
Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(4),
153–163. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000176
Slaug, B., Chiatti, C., Oswald, F., Kaspar, R., &
Schmidt, S. M. (2017). Improved housing accessibility for older people in
Sweden and Germany: Short term costs and long-term gains. International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(964), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14090964
Granbom, M., Slaug, B.,
Löfqvist, C., Oswald, F., & Iwarsson, S. (2016). Community relocation in
very old age: Changes in housing accessibility. American Journal of
Occupational Therapy, 70(2), 7002270020p1-p9. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2016.016147
Iwarsson, S., Löfqvist, C., Oswald, F., Slaug, B.,
Schmidt, S., Wahl, H.-W., Tomsone, S., Himmelsbach, I., & Haak, M.
(2016). Synthesizing
ENABLE-AGE research findings to suggest evidence-based home and health
interventions. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 30(3),
330-343, https://doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2016.1198742
Schlicht, W., Oswald, F.,
& Reyer, M. (2016). Die
altersfreundliche Stadt. [The age-friendly city.] Public Health Forum, 24(4), 301-3.
Wahl, H.-W., & Oswald, F.
(2016). Theories of Environmental Gerontology: Old and new avenues for
person-environmental views of aging. In V. L. Bengtson & R. A. Settersten
(Eds.), Handbook of Theories of Aging (pp. 621-641). New York: Springer.
Kaspar, R., Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Voss, E., &
Wettstein, M. (2015). Daily mood and out-of-home mobility in older
adults: Does
cognitive impairment matter? Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(1), 26-47, https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464812466290
Kaspar, R., Oswald, F., &
Hebsaker, J. (2015). Perceived Social Capital in self-defined urban
neighborhoods as a resource for healthy aging. In F. Nyqvist & A.
K. Forsman (Eds.), Social capital and health resource in later life:
the relevance of context. Springer Series International Perspectives on Aging,
Vol. 11 (pp. 109-125). New York: Springer.
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 and Geriatrics], 48(5),
401-407, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-015-0912-1
Wettstein, M., Wahl, H.-W., Shoval, N., Oswald, F.,
Voss, E., Seidl, U., Frölich, L., Auslander, G., Heinik, J., & Landau, R.
(2015). Out-of-home
behavior and cognitive impairment in older adults: Findings of the SenTra
project. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(1), 3-25, https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464812459373
Claßen, K., Oswald, F., Doh, M., Kleinemas, U., &
Wahl, H.-W. (2014). Umwelten des Alterns: Wohnen, Mobilität, Technik
und Medien. [Environments of aging: Housing, mobility, technology and media.] In
der Reihe „Grundriss Gerontologie“. Stuttgart:
Kohlhammer.
Miche, M., Wahl, H.-W., Diehl, M., Oswald, F., Kaspar,
R., & Kolb. M. (2014). Natural occurrence of subjective aging experiences in
community-dwelling older adults. Journals of Gerontology, Series B:
Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69(2),
174-187, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs164 (online first 2013).
Kolling, T., Haberstroh, J., Kaspar, R., Pantel, J.,
Oswald, F., & Knopf, M. (2013). Methodological considerations
for research in social and emotional robots: Input, Outcome, and
evaluation. GeroPsych - The Journal of Gerontopsychlogy and Geriatric
Psychiatry, 26(2), 83-88, https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000084
Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (2013). Creating and sustaining
homelike places in own home environments. In G. D. Rowles & M. Bernard
(Eds.), Environmental Gerontology (pp. 53-77). New York: Springer.
Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W.,
& Oswald, F. (2013). Change in life satisfaction under chronic physical
multi-morbidity in advanced old age: Potential and limits of adaptation. Journal
of Happiness Studies, 14(1), 19-36, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9313-3
Wahl, H.-W., Wettstein, M., Shoval, N., Oswald, F.,
Kaspar, R., Issacson, M., Voss, E., Auslander, G. & Heinik, J.
(2013). Interplay
of cognitive and motivational resources for out-of-home behavior in a sample of
cognitively heterogeneous older adults: Findings of the SenTra project. Journal
of Gerontology. Series B: Psychological Sciences, 68(5), 691-702, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs106
Malmgren Fänge, A., Oswald, F., & Clemson, L.
(2012). Editorial. Journal
of Aging Research Special Issue “Aging in place in late life: Theory,
methodology, and intervention", 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/547562
Oswald, F., & Kaspar, R.
(2012). On the quantitative assessment of perceived housing in later
life. In R. Scheidt & B. Schwarz
(Eds.) Environmental Gerontology: What Now? New York:
Routledge / Taylor & Francis.
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
Jopp, D., Rott, C., & Oswald,
F. (2008). Valuation of life in old and very old age: The role of
sociodemographic, social and health resources for positive adaptation. The
Gerontologist, 48(5), 646-658, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/48.5.646
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
Oswald, F., Schilling, O.,
Wahl, H.-W., Fänge, A., Sixsmith, J., & Iwarsson, S. (2006). Homeward bound: Introducing a
four domain model of perceived housing in very old age. Journal of Environmental
Psychology, 26(3), 187-201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.07.002
Oswald, F., Hieber, A., Wahl,
H.-W., & Mollenkopf, H. (2005). Ageing and person-environment
fit in different urban neighbourhoods. European Journal of Ageing, 2(2), 88-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-005-0026-5
Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W.
(2004). Housing and health in later life. Reviews of Environmental
Health, 19(3-4), 223-252.
Rowles, G. D., Oswald, F.,
& Hunter, E. G. (2004). Interior living environments in old age. In H.-W.
Wahl, R. Scheidt & P. G. Windley (Eds.), Aging in context:
Socio-physical environments (Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2003) (pp.
167-193). New York: Springer.
Oswald, F., Schilling, O.,
Wahl, H.-W., & Gäng, K. (2002). Trouble in paradise? Reasons
to relocate and objective environmental changes among well-off older
adults. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 22(3), 273-288.
Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W.
(2001). Housing in
old age: Conceptual remarks and empirical data on place attachment. Bulletin
on People-Environment Studies, 19, 8-12.
Professor am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Leiter des Arbeitsbereichs Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main und Sprecher des Frankfurter Forums für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung (FFIA)
Postanschrift
Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft
Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Campus Westend – PEG 4.G157
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E-Mail: oswald@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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