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Research Institute for Economics of Aging

About us

The Research Institute for Economics of Aging was established in summer 2006. Its research focuses on the socio-economic living conditions of older people and on the economic challenges of an aging society.

Read more about us and our projects, publications and ASCOT (German version).

News

News

New Publications:

New Projects:

  • In September 2023, 24/7-Digital, an Austrian research and development project, was launched to develop, test, and evaluate an app for 24-hour care.

  • March 2022 saw the launch of AAL@HzL, a Viennese collaborative project to test and evaluate new technologies for "Häuser zum Leben" (residential care).

  • In June 2021, "Care about Care" started, a European research and development project to promote digitization in long-term care.

  • In May 2021, ASCOT-LL started, a project to develop a light-reading version for the German-language ASCOT survey instruments.

Awards:

  • Birgit Trukeschitz was “WU Researcher of the Month” October 2022 - for the RoM video with subtitles see here.

  • In November 2021, Birgit Trukeschitz and Assma Hajji received "WU Awards for Outstanding Research Achievement" for publications on the German-language version of ASCOT (Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit).