German Center for Age Issues
The German Center for Aging Issues (DZA) is a federal research institution (departmental research institute ) under the responsibility of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth based in Berlin . The institute director is Clemens Tesch-Römer .
history
It was founded in 1974. The research institute deals with the methods of social and behavioral research on aging, the living conditions of aging and old people, and provides scientifically independent political advice with a view to socially relevant age issues . While the main task of the institute in the first two decades of its existence was the collection and processing of data and knowledge about the living situation of older people, the field of activity expanded from 1998 to include social and behavioral research on aging.
The association is a member of the working group of departmental research institutions .
working area
The DZA is divided into the areas of research , policy advice and scientific information systems and has a specialist library .
research
The organization follows the premises:
- Individual development takes place over the entire life cycle . (2) Growing old is embedded in social and cultural change .
- The age phase is characterized by diversity and inequality .
Research topics at the DZA are employment, further education and retirement , voluntary engagement and participation , economic situation and social security, health and well-being , images of old age and age discrimination , housing and housing infrastructure as well as family, partnership, intergenerational relationships and social support. An essential criterion in the research of the institute is the focus on application-related, policy-oriented issues.
The German Aging Survey (DEAS) has been carried out at the DZA (since 2001) , a thematically comprehensive, longitudinal study of life situations in the second half of life. Since 2011, the DZA has also been in charge of the scientific management of the volunteer survey, a representative survey of people aged 14 and over on volunteering in Germany. Other projects were the European third-party funded project OASIS (Old Age and Autonomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity; 2000 to 2003), the third-party funded project LAW (résumés and pensions in transition; 2009 to 2012) and the third-party funded projects PREFER I and II ( Personal resources for autonomy despite multimorbidity in old age; 2008 to 2013).
Policy advice
In policy advice , scientific findings are prepared for actors in politics. The various levels of social and senior citizens' policy (federal, state, local) are taken into account. The policy advice of the DZA is geared towards the compilation and communication of information and knowledge that are important for the planning of socio-political and old-age aid policy.
Since 1995, the DZA has been supporting the work of the expert commissions that prepare the Federal Government's reports on the elderly with an office . The expert reports provide current stocktaking of the living situation of older people in Germany. In addition, the senior citizens to have world Old plans of the United Nations participated.
Scientific information services
The statistics information system GeroStat provides socio-gerontological relevant data from official statistics and empirical social research for politics, practice, media, science and the general public online. The Research Data Center (FDZ-DZA) prepares the microdata of the German Age Survey and the Volunteer Survey in the form of Scientific Use Files for scientific research and teaching, provides relevant documentation and advises interested parties and users of the data. Publications and short reports are offered as part of the DZA's social reporting. The online series "Report Age Data" provides data-oriented overviews on various age-related topics with current figures, annotated tables, figures and references to relevant data sources and studies.
Library
The library is the most extensive collection of scientific and application-oriented literature on the subject of "Age and Aging" in the German-speaking world and has existed since the DZA was founded in 1974. The library's collection focuses on gerontology , sociology , especially the sociology of old age and sociology Curriculum vitae, developmental psychology of old age, elderly / senior citizens and social policy, health care for the elderly as well as the areas of elderly care, elderly care and nursing science with reference to the elderly. Three special collection areas complement the library's holdings: a textbook collection for trainees and students in social and nursing professions, literary considerations of age and the federal states' plans for the elderly.
The holdings of the special library have been cataloged in terms of content and form and are listed in the GeroLit online catalog .
bibliography
- Tesch-Römer, C. (2011). German Center for Age Issues. In German Association for Public and Private Welfare (Hrsg.), Fachlexikon der Sozialen Arbeit (7th edition, pp. 184-185). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Wolff, JK & Tesch-Römer, C. (2015). German Center for Age Issues (DZA). Psychotherapy at age, 12 (3).
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ https://www.dza.de/dza/mitarbeiterinnen/tesch-roemer.html
- ↑ https://www.dza.de/dza/zur-geschichte-des-dza.html
- ^ Research project: OASIS - Old Age and Autonomy: The Role of Service Systems and Intergenerational Family Solidarity
- ↑ Research project: LAW - CVs and old-age insurance in transition
- ↑ Research project: PREFER I and II - Personale resources for autonomy despite Multimorbidity in age .
- ↑ Office for the Federal Government's reports on the elderly
- ↑ GeroStat - Statistical Information System
- ^ FDZ-DZA: Research data center of the DZA
- ↑ Information service "Report age data"
- ↑ GeroLit - Online catalog of the library DZA