Psychotherapie im Alter

Medical advances have led to a longer life expectancy for patients with advanced cancer. Patients and their caregivers are thus confronted with the existential tension between hope and uncertainty. Patients often experience existential fears of...

How do older people experience retirement? What particular mental health risks do they associate with this stage of life? These questions are the focus of this article. From the perspective of the age group concerned, three categories that are...

The transition to post-working life is one of the most significant experiences of early old age. Although it is visible in therapeutic practice as a particularly crisis-prone phase, it is difficult to scientifically assess how people experience and...

This article understands young old age as a phase of potential late freedom. It is based on psychological concepts of transitional phases and developmental tasks. Retirement from work is interpreted as a transitional phase characterized by a high...

This paper describes and reflects on several experiences in retirement after decades of psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work, especially in the context of the simultaneous dynamics of aging. The central psychodynamic hypotheses are based on...

For those working in the medical-psychosocial field, the transition to retirement represents a complex biographical turning point that extends far beyond the end of gainful employment. The personal reflections provided by psychotherapists,...

For a long time, the transition to retirement was considered a negative critical life event. Today, empirical research paints a different picture: for the majority, the gains outweigh the losses. There is hardly any evidence of a decline in health...

The aim of this pilot study was to examine the association between anticipatory grief and the frequency and duration of everyday visits by family caregivers of people with dementia living in nursing homes, as well as to assess the mediating role of...

Dementia represents one of the major health and societal challenges of the 21st century. At the same time, new developments and insights in the fields of prevention strategies, prodromal disease stages, and disease-modifying drugs are shaping...

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is an evidence-based psychosocial treatment for people living with dementia. The manualised intervention aims to improve cognitive and social skills through multisensory, reminiscence-oriented and everyday...

Psychotherapy with older aged adults is considered particularly challenging, especially when cognitive impairments are present. Psychotherapists are faced with the question of how and where they can effectively treat. Acute geriatric psychiatric...

This article reports practice-oriented psychotherapeutic experiences of the Tele.TAnDem intervention (Psychotherapeutic Support for Family Caregivers of People with Dementia) as part of the BerTA study (Counseling and Therapy for Family Caregivers;...

The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral group therapy for people with early-stage dementia (MmbD) in terms of the group participants’ depression, quality of life, and self-efficacy...

The article investigates relational dynamics within age-discrepant therapeutic dyads involving older patients and significantly younger therapists. Drawing on three clinical vignettes, it delineates specific transference and countertransference...

Psychodynamic psychotherapy between young therapists and older patients is often shaped by intergenerational tensions, projections, and mutual resonance. Based on the case of a 75-year-old woman following a car accident, this article explores core...