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
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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