Volume 21 (2024), Edition 2

In the relationship between babyboomers and their adult children conflicts are breaking up: globally in the climate debate, socio-politically in retirement provisions, and personally in challenging patchwork-families. The babyboomers’ contemporary...

Poverty in old age is rising in Germany. Older people in poverty have less health chances compared to older people better off. They live with multiple restrictions: in many cases, their housing conditions are precarious; their psychosocial, physical...

Using three examples from the 20th century (the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Vietnam War), this text examines different forms of speaking and writing about war as an experience of violence, based on the analysis of letters, diaries...

Based on social changes that may have contributed to gender diversity, especially among young people, I look back at how my views and attitudes as a sex and trans*gender therapist have changed over the past 30 years. To this end, I look at the...

Older people, especially very old men, are a high-risk group for suicide. There is empirical evidence that societal views on aging, according to which life in old age is deficient and less valuable, in combination with the normative expectation that...

Within general suicide prevention strategies, increasing attention is being paid to crossinstitutional services and measures. As places where potential suicide drugs are traded and specific forms of counseling are offered, pharmacies can make an...