Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into places as a joint endeavor.

Background And Objectives: We focus on the linkages between relocation, new forms of partner cohabitation, and retirement. What are the patterns and trajectories of moving in with a partner in retirement? How do older adults experience different transitions, place attachment, and placemaking when they move in with a partner?

Research Design And Methods: In this qualitative study, 50 persons between 60 and 75 years old were interviewed in Sweden and Germany. For this paper, we focused on nine participants who experienced a relocation with a partner in retirement.

[Age assemblages : Sociotechnical innovations and successful age(ing) from the perspective of material gerontology].

Background: Individual-centered approaches have for a long time defined the gerontological involvement with technology. Despite an approach that expands in terms of space (e.g.

Spacetimematter of aging - The material temporalities of later life.

Material gerontology poses the question of how aging processes are co-constituted in relation to different forms of (human and non-human) materiality. This paper makes a novel contribution by asking when aging processes are co-constituted and how these temporalities of aging are entangled with different forms of materiality. In this paper, we explore the entanglements of temporality and materiality in shaping later life by framing them as spacetimematters (Barad, 2013).

[Participatory approaches in age(ing) research : Definitions, fields of application and challenges in different research stages].

There is much to be gained from participatory research: it can increase the closeness of research to everyday life, the acceptance of the resulting practical implications and holds the potential to fundamentally democratize scientific knowledge production. It is not surprising that this is not without irritation on the part of academic researchers and their institutional environment as well as on the part of nonacademically trained co-researchers. Based on an inspection of the relevant literature this article outlines the different understanding and definitions of participatory age(ing) research, its current fields of application, and utilization in different phases of the research process.

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.

[On the co-constitution of age(ing) and digital technologies : A critical gerontological discussion of the thematic focal point "Commercially available digital technology in the daily routine of older persons: a research update"].

The thematic focus addresses two interwoven megatrends of the 21st century: demographic and technological change. This commentary aims to contextualize and reflect on this update from the perspective of a critical gerontology.

Resonant Retiring? Experiences of Resonance in the Transition to Retirement.

In the process of life course transitions, relations between the self and the world transform, which can according to Hartmut Rosa be framed as resonance. This article focuses on the retirement transition and thus on the exit from gainful employment as one of the central spheres of our world relationship in late modernity. It raises the following questions: How do experiences of resonance change in the course of the retirement transition? Does the loss of gainful employment lead to disruptions or even the absence of resonance in terms of alienation? And which role do dimensions of social inequality, such as gender, income, education or mental health status play for resonance transformations in the transition to retirement? In terms of a reflexive mixed-methods design, this article combines quantitative panel data from the German Ageing Survey (2008-17) with a qualitative longitudinal study from the project "Doing Retiring" (2017-21).

[Socio-gerontechnology-a research program on technology and age(ing) at the interface of gerontology and science and technology studies].

Background: A vast body of gerontological research addresses the questions how and why older adults use new technologies or not. While the majority of them advocate a differentiated understanding of age(ing), most are based on a narrow understanding of technology, reducing it to manifest artefacts. To broaden such an understanding, gerontology can learn from science and technology studies (STS).

Continuity and change in the transition to retirement: how time allocation, leisure practices and lifestyles evolve when work vanishes in later life.

With increased longevity and socio-structural as well as socio-cultural changes, ageing research has shown a growing diversity of patterns in retirement lifestyles (Scherger et al. in Ageing Soc 31:146-172, 2011. 10.

Vulnerability to heatwaves and implications for public health interventions - A scoping review.

Background: Heatwaves form a serious public health threat, especially for vulnerable groups. Interventions such as active outreach programs, exposure reduction measures and monitoring and mapping of at-risk groups are increasingly implemented across the world but little is known about their effect.

Objectives: To assess how vulnerable groups are identified and reached in heat health interventions, to understand the effectiveness and efficiency of those interventions, and to identify research gaps in existing literature.

Disengagement as Withdrawal From Public Space: Rethinking the Relation Between Place Attachment, Place Appropriation, and Identity-Building Among Older Adults.

Background And Objectives: Empirical research indicates that engagement with public space decreases with age. Why do some older adults withdraw from the public, and which role does the (urban) environment play in spatial (dis-)engagement? Environmental gerontology's model of person-environment (PE) fit suggests an interrelation between agency and belonging and their causal effects on identity and wellbeing in later life. However, there is little research on how these dimensions are actually related.

SUV driving "masculinizes" risk behavior in females: a public health challenge.

Involvement of sport utility vehicles (SUV) in accidents especially with children is of increasing importance. Studies have indicated a more risky behavior in SUV drivers. We conducted an observational study focusing on traffic violations, car type, and the gender of the driver in Vienna.

Health and Wellbeing of Occupants in Highly Energy Efficient Buildings: A Field Study.

Passive houses and other highly energy-efficient buildings need mechanical ventilation. However, ventilation systems in such houses are regarded with a certain degree of skepticism by parts of the public due to alleged negative health effects. Within a quasi-experimental field study, we investigated if occupants of two types of buildings (mechanical vs.

Indoor Environmental Quality in Mechanically Ventilated, Energy-Efficient Buildings vs. Conventional Buildings.

Energy-efficient buildings need mechanical ventilation. However, there are concerns that inadequate mechanical ventilation may lead to impaired indoor air quality. Using a semi-experimental field study, we investigated if exposure of occupants of two types of buildings (mechanical vs.

Job strain and coping among ageing baby boomers.

Background: Research indicates that the so-called baby boomer generation (the population born after World War II) exhibits worrying health trends. Taking age-cohort effects into account, it is still unclear how the mechanisms concerning stress and health function and how the distribution of stressors, stress mediators and stress effects on health differ between generations.

Objectives: The article approaches stress from a generational perspective asking: which are the stressors the baby boomer generation is facing? Under which conditions and with which resources is exposure to stressors harmful to health? Is there an accumulation of stress in later working life?

Material And Methods: In the course of the project "Wellbeing", a quantitative online survey was carried out in selected commercial enterprises and public institutions in four project partner countries.