Volume 21 (2024), Edition 1

This paper strives to contribute to the established view that close bridge-building among behavioral aging science/life-span developmental psychology and psychotherapeutic work with older adults deserve constant nurturing. The goal is to identify...

Views on aging are complex and diverse: They can pertain to young, old, or very old individuals, to others (»the elderly«), or to ourselves when we are old. These views on aging contain varying and sometimes even contradictory content, depending...

In the past decades studies showed repeatedly that psychotherapeutic health care for older adults is insufficient in Germany. One reason might be the lack of theoretical and practical knowledge about psychotherapy in later life on the part of...

This article introduces the concept of »existential feeling«. This is intended to describe a task as well as a potential of the person – also in old age: to become aware of the foundations of personal existence, to step out of oneself and to...

Theory of mind (ToM) is understood as a vital capacity in social interaction. While numerous findings prove a decrease of competence in old age, it is not clear which impact this has on the health-related aspects of quality of life. In a substudy of...