Prof. Dr. Frank Oswald ist Professor für Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft (IAW) am Fachbereich Erziehungswissenschaften und Vorstandssprecher des Frankfurter Forums für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung der Goethe-Universität (FFIA) sowie Direktor des Center AGING der Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE). Er ist Diplompsychologe und Autor / Mitautor zahlreicher Artikel und Buchkapitel im Bereich Gerontologie und Psychologie. Er hat Untersuchungen zu Wohnen und außerhäuslicher Mobilität im Alter in Deutschland und in Europa durchgeführt.
1990 Diplom in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
1996 Promotion in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2005 Habilitation in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2008 Außerplanmäßiger Professor für Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
2009 Professor für Interdisziplinäre Alternswissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt / Main
Konopik, N., Pfeiffer,
K., & Oswald, F. (2024). Schutz vor Gewalt bei häuslicher Pflege. In J.
Bauer, M. Denkinger, C. Becker, & R. Wirth (Hrsg.), Geriatrie (S. 720-726).
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W.,
Wanka, A., & Chaudhury, H. (2024). Theorizing place and aging: Enduring and
novel issues in Environmental Gerontology. In M. P. Cutchin & G. D. Rowles
(Eds.). Handbook of Aging and Place (pp. 37-60). London, UK: Edward Elgar Publ.
Oswald, F. (2024).
Theories of place and aging: An Environmental Gerontology perspective. In
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Eds.), Aging in
Place with Dementia: Proceedings of a Workshop, chapter 2 ‘Frameworks for Aging
in Place’ (pp. 7-11). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27420
Wanka, A., Schmidt, S.
M., Iwarsson, S., Oswald, F., Wazinski, K., Slaug, B., & Kylén, M.
(2023). Moving in together in later life: Making spaces into
places as a joint endeavor. Journal of Aging Studies, 68, 101191,
online ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101191
Leontowitsch, M.,
Putnina, A., Andersson, M., Niemistö, C., Werny, R., Sjögren, H., Mileiko, I.,
Lakševics, K., Pokšāns, A., Neikena, M., Orste, L., Malm, C., Oswald, F.,
Hearn, J., & Krekula, C. (2023). Participatory action research on webs of
caring in the digital age across four European countries. Quality in Ageing and
Older Adults, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-03-2023-0020
Leontowitsch, M., &
Oswald, F. (2023). Partizipative Forschung in der Gerontologie. Editorial. Zeitschrift
für Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 56(5), 355-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-023-02217-9
Niedoba, S., & Oswald, F. (2023). Person-environment exchange processes
in transition into dementia: A Scoping Review. The Gerontologist,
online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad034
Penger, S., Oswald, F.,
& Wahl, H.-W. (2023). Altern im Raum am Beispiel von Wohnen und
Mobilität. [Aging in place using the
example of housing and mobility.] In K. Hank, F. Schulz-Nieswandt, M. Wagner
& S. Zank (Hrsg.), Alternsforschung - Handbuch für Wissenschaft und
Praxis [Ageing research – Handbook for science and practice.], 2. Auflage (S.
411-441). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag.
Wanka, A.,
Freutel-Funke, T., Andresen, S., & Oswald, F. (Eds.) (2023). Feeling lonely. A Linking Ages perspective on the risks for
loneliness in early and later life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel and
Germany [White paper]. The MINERVA Center for Intersectionality in Ageing
(MCIA). https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.73894
Wanka, A., Urbaniak, A.,
Oswald, F., & Kolland, F. (2023). Digital transformations in ageing societies. Editorial. Zeitschrift
für Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 56(3),
177-180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-023-02186-z
Adams, A-K., Oswald, F., & Pantel, J. (Hrsg.) (2022). Museumsangebote
für Menschen mit Demenz. Ein Praxishandbuch zur Förderung kultureller und
sozialer Teilhabe. [Museum programs for people with dementia. A handbook to foster cultural and social participation.] Stuttgart:
Kohlhammer.
Eriksson, E., Wazinski,
K., Wanka, A., Kylén, M., Oswald, F., Slaug, B., Iwarsson, S., & Schmidt,
S.M. (2022). Perceived housing in relation
to retirement and relocation: A qualitative interview study among older
adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public
Health, 19, 13314, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013314
Freutel-Funke, T.,
Müller, H., Nägler, D., Wanka, A., & Oswald, F. (2022). Linking Ages –
Reflexive Übergangsforschung in Kindheit und höherem Erwachsenenalter durch
Interpretationen unter anderen Vorzeichen. [Linking Ages – Reflexive transitional research in childhood and later life
by means of interpretation under different conditions.] Zeitschrift für
Pädagogik [Journal of Padagogy], 68(Beiheft), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.3262/ZPB2201098
Leontowitsch, M., Wolf.
F., & Oswald, F. (2022). Digital
(in)equalities and user emancipation: Examining the potential of Adorno's maxim
of Mündigkeit for critical intergenerational learning. Frontiers in Sociology,
7, 983034, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.983034
Oswald, F. (2022).
Leben mit Demenz aus ökogerontologischer Perspektive. [Life with dementia from an environmental gerontology perspective.] In
A-K. Adams, F. Oswald, & J. Pantel (Hrsg.). Museumsangebote für
Menschen mit Demenz. Ein Praxishandbuch zur Förderung kultureller und sozialer
Teilhabe. [Museum programs for people with dementia. A handbook to foster cultural and social participation.] (S. 31-38).
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Konopik, N., Kaspar, R.,
Penger, S., Oswald, F., & Himmelsbach, I. (2021). Advancing Health Literacy measurement in old and very old age. Health
Promotion International, daaa137, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa137
Oswald, F. (2021). Alter und Altern - Anmerkungen zur Unterscheidung
krankhafter und normaler Alternsverläufe. [Age and Ageing – Coments to differ between pathological and normal
ageing.] In J. Pantel, C. Bollheimer, A. Kruse, J. Schröder, C. Sieber & V. A.
Tesky (Hrsg.). Praxishandbuch Altersmedizin [Practice
handbook Geriatric Medicine.] (2. erweiterte und überarbeitete
Auflage). (S. 81-91). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Oswald, F., Klinger, T.,
Conrad, K., Penger, S., & Siedentop, S. (2021). Das Recht auf Teilhabe am
kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Leben im Alter am Beispiel urbaner Mobilität
- Eine interdisziplinäre Positionsbestimmung. [The right to participate in cultural and social life in old age through
the example of urban mobility - An interdisciplinary exploration.] Psychotherapie im Alter
„Menschenrechte“ [Psychotherapy in Later Life „Human Rights“], 18(1), 43-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.30820/1613-2637-2021-1-43
Urbaniak, A., Wanka, A., Walsh, K., & Oswald, F. (2021). The
relationship between place and life-course transitions in old-age social
exclusion: A cross-country analysis. In K. Walsh, T. Scharf. S. Van
Regenmortel, & A. Wanka (eds.) Social Exclusion in Later Life: Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives.
International Perspective on Ageing,28 (pp. 209-222). New York, London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51406-8_16
Wolf, F., Nauman, J., & Oswald, F. (2021). Digital social interactions
in later life: Effects of instant messaging on situational mood of older
smartphone users. Conference Proceedings of the International
Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Springer Publ.
Andersson, N., Nilsson, M. H., Slaug, B., Oswald, F. & Iwarsson, S.
(2020). The Meaning of Home Questionnaire revisited: Psychometric analyses
among people with Parkinson´s Disease reveals new dimensions. PLoS ONE
15(12): e0242792. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242792
Andersson, N., Nilsson, M. H., Slaug, B., Oswald, F. & Iwarsson, S.
(2020). Psychometric properties of the external housing‑Related Control
Belief Questionnaire among people with Parkinson's disease. Aging
Clinical and Experimental Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-020-01477-4
Herbolsheimer, F., Mahmood, A., Ungar, N., Michael, Y. L., Oswald, F.,
& Chaudhury, H. (2020). Perceptions of the neighborhood built environment
for walking behavior in older adults living in close proximity. Journal
of Applied Gerontology, 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464820979258
Naumann, D., & Oswald, F. (2020). Wohnen im Alter. [Housing in old
age.] In K. Aner & U. Karl (Hrsg.), Handbuch Soziale Arbeit und
Alter [Handbook of Social Work and Old Age] (2. Auflage) (S. 369-377). Wiesbaden:
Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-26624-0_30
Oswald, F. (2020). Zum
Verhältnis von Person und Wohnumwelt in Zeiten von Corona - Anmerkungen aus der
Perspektive einer ökologischen Gerontologie. [On the relationship between Person and home environments in times of
Corona – Remarks from an environmental gerontology perspective.] ProAlter 03(20), 15-18.
Oswald, F., & Wanka,
A. (2020). Zum Dialog von Psychologie und reflexiver Übergangsforschung –
Beiträge aus der Psychologie der Lebensspanne und der Ökologischen
Psychologie. [On the dialoge between psychology
and reflexive transition research - Contributions from a lifespan and
environmental psychology.] In A. Walther, B. Stauber, M. Rieger-Ladich, & A.
Wanka (Hrsg.), Reflexive Übergangsforschung: Theoretische Grundlagen
und methodologische Herausforderungen [Reflexive transition research:
Theoretical foundations and methodological challenges.] (pp. 81-102).
Opladen: Barbara Budrich.
Wanka, A., & Oswald,
F. (2020). „Mapping age“ - das Verhältnis von Altern und Raum neu denken. Editorial. ["Mapping age" - rethinking the relationship
between aging and space. Editorial.] Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und
Geriatrie [J. of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 53(5), 379-381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-020-01769-4
Wanka, A., Urbaniak, A., Walsh, K., & Oswald, F. (2020). The
relationship between housing, life-course transitions, and old age social
exclusion: A cross-country analysis. Innovation in Aging, 4(Suppl
1), 596. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2002
Chaudhury, H., & Oswald, F. (2019). Advancing understanding of
person-environment interaction in later life: One step further. Journal
of Aging Studies, 51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100821
Leontowitsch, M., Fooken, I., & Oswald, F. (2019). Learning to Live
Alone – The role of empowerment and agency in the lives of older men living alone. European
Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 3,
231-246. https://doi.org/10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela20194
Oswald, F., & Wahl,
H-W. (2019). Physical contexts and behavioral aging.
In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.399
Tesky, V. A., Schall,
A., Schulze, U., Stangier, U., Oswald, F., Knopf, M., König, J., Blettner, M.,
Arens, E., & Pantel, J. (2019). Depression in the nursing home: A cluster-randomized stepped-wedge study to
probe the effectiveness of a novel case management approach to improve
treatment (the DAVOS project). BMC / Trials, 20(424), p. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3534-x
Baisch, S., Kolling, T.,
Klein, B., Pantel, J., Oswald, F., & Knopf, M. (2018). Dynamic interplay between general experience and robot-specific expertise
at older adults' first encounter with a robot: Role for robot acceptance and
implications for robot design. Gerontechnology, 17(4),
215-231 https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2018.17.4.003.00
Chaudhury, H., & Oswald, F. (2018). Environments in an Aging Society: Autobiographical Perspectives in
Environmental Gerontology. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics,
Volume 38. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Penger, S., & Oswald, F. (2017). A new measure of mobility-related
behavioral flexibility and routines in old age. GeroPsych - The
Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(4),
153–163. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000176
Slaug, B., Chiatti, C.,
Oswald, F., Kaspar, R., & Schmidt, S. M. (2017). Improved housing accessibility for older people in Sweden and Germany:
Short term costs and long-term gains. International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(964), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14090964
Granbom, M., Slaug, B., Löfqvist, C., Oswald, F., & Iwarsson, S.
(2016). Community relocation in very old age: Changes in housing
accessibility. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70(2), 7002270020p1-p9. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2016.016147
Iwarsson, S., Löfqvist,
C., Oswald, F., Slaug, B., Schmidt, S., Wahl, H.-W., Tomsone, S., Himmelsbach,
I., & Haak, M. (2016). Synthesizing
ENABLE-AGE research findings to suggest evidence-based home and health
interventions. Journal of Housing for the Elderly, 30(3),
330-343, https://doi.org/10.1080/02763893.2016.1198742
Schlicht, W., Oswald, F., & Reyer, M. (2016). Die altersfreundliche
Stadt. [The age-friendly city.] Public Health Forum, 24(4),
301-3.
Wahl, H.-W., & Oswald, F. (2016). Theories of Environmental
Gerontology: Old and new avenues for person-environmental views of aging. In V.
L. Bengtson & R. A. Settersten (Eds.), Handbook of Theories of
Aging (pp. 621-641). New York: Springer.
Kaspar, R., Oswald, F.,
Wahl, H.-W., Voss, E., & Wettstein, M. (2015). Daily mood and out-of-home mobility in older adults: Does cognitive impairment matter? Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(1), 26-47, https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464812466290
Kaspar,
R., Oswald, F., & Hebsaker, J. (2015). Perceived Social Capital in self-defined urban neighborhoods as a resource for healthy aging. In F.
Nyqvist & A. K. Forsman (Eds.), Social capital and health resource in
later life: the relevance of context. Springer Series International Perspectives on Aging, Vol. 11 (pp. 109-125).
New York: Springer.
Oswald, F., &
Konopik, N. (2015). Bedeutung von außerhäuslichen Aktivitäten, Nachbarschaft
und Stadtteilidentifikation für das Wohlbefinden im Alter. [Impact of out-of-home activities, neighborhood and urban-related identity
on well-being in old age] Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie [J.
of Gerontology and Geriatrics], 48(5), 401-407, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-015-0912-1
Wettstein, M., Wahl,
H.-W., Shoval, N., Oswald, F., Voss, E., Seidl, U., Frölich, L., Auslander, G.,
Heinik, J., & Landau, R. (2015). Out-of-home behavior and cognitive impairment in older adults: Findings of
the SenTra project. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 34(1), 3-25, https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464812459373
Claßen, K., Oswald, F.,
Doh, M., Kleinemas, U., & Wahl, H.-W. (2014). Umwelten des Alterns:
Wohnen, Mobilität, Technik und Medien. [Environments of aging: Housing, mobility, technology and media.] In
der Reihe „Grundriss Gerontologie“. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Miche, M., Wahl, H.-W.,
Diehl, M., Oswald, F., Kaspar, R., & Kolb. M. (2014). Natural occurrence of subjective aging experiences in community-dwelling
older adults. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences
and Social Sciences, 69(2), 174-187, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs164 (online first 2013).
Kolling, T., Haberstroh,
J., Kaspar, R., Pantel, J., Oswald, F., & Knopf, M. (2013). Methodological considerations for research in social and emotional robots:
Input, Outcome, and evaluation. GeroPsych - The Journal of
Gerontopsychlogy and Geriatric Psychiatry, 26(2), 83-88, https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000084
Oswald, F., & Wahl,
H.-W. (2013). Creating and sustaining
homelike places in own home environments. In G. D. Rowles & M. Bernard
(Eds.), Environmental Gerontology (pp. 53-77). New York: Springer.
Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., & Oswald, F. (2013). Change in life satisfaction under chronic physical multi-morbidity in
advanced old age: Potential and limits of adaptation. Journal of
Happiness Studies, 14(1), 19-36, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9313-3
Wahl, H.-W., Wettstein,
M., Shoval, N., Oswald, F., Kaspar, R., Issacson, M., Voss, E., Auslander, G.
& Heinik, J. (2013). Interplay of
cognitive and motivational resources for out-of-home behavior in a sample of
cognitively heterogeneous older adults: Findings of the SenTra project. Journal
of Gerontology. Series B: Psychological Sciences, 68(5), 691-702, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs106
Malmgren Fänge, A.,
Oswald, F., & Clemson, L. (2012). Editorial. Journal of Aging Research Special Issue “Aging in place
in late life: Theory, methodology, and intervention", 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/547562
Oswald, F., & Kaspar, R. (2012). On the quantitative assessment
of perceived housing in later life. In R. Scheidt & B. Schwarz (Eds.) Environmental
Gerontology: What Now? New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis.
Oswald, F., Jopp, D.,
Rott, C. & Wahl, H.-W. (2011). Is aging in place a resource for or risk to life satisfaction? The Gerontologist, 51(2),
238-250, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnq096
Jopp, D., Rott, C., & Oswald, F. (2008). Valuation of life in old and
very old age: The role of sociodemographic, social and health resources for
positive adaptation. The Gerontologist, 48(5), 646-658, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/48.5.646
Oswald, F., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., Nygren, C., Fänge, A., Sixsmith,
A., Sixsmith, J., Széman, S., Tomsone, S., & Iwarsson, S. (2007).
Relationships between housing and healthy aging in very old age. The
Gerontologist, 47(1), 96-107, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/47.1.96
Oswald, F., Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., Fänge, A., Sixsmith, J., &
Iwarsson, S. (2006). Homeward bound:
Introducing a four domain model of perceived housing in very old age. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 26(3), 187-201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2006.07.002
Oswald, F., Hieber, A., Wahl, H.-W., & Mollenkopf, H. (2005). Ageing and person-environment fit in different urban neighbourhoods. European Journal of Ageing, 2(2), 88-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-005-0026-5
Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (2004). Housing and health in later
life. Reviews of Environmental Health, 19(3-4), 223-252.
Rowles, G. D., Oswald, F., & Hunter, E. G. (2004). Interior living environments in old age. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt & P.
G. Windley (Eds.), Aging in context: Socio-physical environments
(Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2003) (pp. 167-193). New
York: Springer.
Oswald, F., Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., & Gäng, K. (2002). Trouble in paradise? Reasons to relocate and objective environmental
changes among well-off older adults. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 22(3), 273-288.
Oswald, F., & Wahl, H.-W. (2001). Housing in old age: Conceptual remarks and empirical data on place
attachment. Bulletin on People-Environment Studies, 19, 8-12.