Old age
IP213 (former IP13)
Project leader: Matthias Kliegel
IP213’s objective remains that of studying well-being among the elderly, notably based on the VLV survey data. Our interdisciplinary research is concerned with the dynamic interplays that take place in old age between health problems, psychological functioning and regulation, individual actions, and the interpersonal, institutional and cultural contexts in which elderly live. These relations are central in the mechanisms generating situations of vulnerability and processes of vulnerabilisation among old adults, as well as in those improving their resilience and capacity to sustain their well-being. Consequently, our two research objectives aim to explore 1) the life-course construction of vulnerabilities among old adults, and 2) the articulation of individual, social and institutional resources in the care of the elderly.
During Phase 1 (2011-2014), this project was entitled "Behind the democratization of old age: Inequalities within progress" (IP13)
Team:
Prof. Jean-François Bickel, Prof. Claudio Bolzman, Prof. Olivier Desrichard, Prof. Christian Maggiori, Prof. Michel Oris
Dr. Marie Baeriswyl, Dr. Nicola Ballhausen, Dr. Isabel Baumann, Dr. Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Dr. Delphine Fagot, Dr. Andreas Ihle, Dr. Barbara Masotti, Dr. Ben Meuleman, Dr. Sascha Zuber
Doctoral students:
François Geiser, Siboney Minko, Rojin Sadeghi, Julia Sauter, Rose van der Linden
Research assistants
Elisa Gallerne, Melissa Nobile, Margaux Pimont, Doriana Tinello
News published on IP213
- The baby boom, zenith of perfect housewifes, explained through macro- and microanalyses
- Older people's views on their past and their relatives are conditioned by social structure
- Research on ageing reveals current and future ills of society
- The NCCR LIVES commits 700,000 CHF in three new projects on health and ageing
- Retirement Provision 2020: A Reform Towards More Social Inequality? “Active Ageing” and Older People of Migrant Background
- “The Future of Psychology”: congress of the Swiss Psychological Society in Geneva
- Is active ageing an attainable ideal for the underprivileged?
- LIVES PhD student awarded by Swiss Symposium on Gerontology
- Immigrant elders in Switzerland feel much less healthy than senior nationals
- 3 day symposium in Geneva in gerontology and cognitive aging
- NCCR LIVES sociologists in Morocco
- “Nursing homes for the elderly are not such bad places to live in anymore”
- Three LIVES members involved in the Biel Forum on the Third Age
- LIVES' co-director at the Swiss Conference of Social Action Institutions
Publications
Selected publications

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