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).

New Publications:

• Trukeschitz, Birgit & Schneider, Ulrike. 2023. Aktuelle Entwicklungen und Perspektiven in der Langzeitpflege. Kurswechsel, 2023, 2, , S. 31-41. (only in German)

• Trukeschitz, Birgit; Österle, August & Schneider, Ulrike. 2022. Austria’s Long-Term Care System: Challenges and Policy Responses. Journal of Long-Term Care, (2022), pp. 88–101.

• Trukeschitz, Birgit; Eisenberg, Siegfried; Schneider, Cornelia & Schneider, Ulrike. (2022). Exploring the effectiveness of a fitness-app prototype for home care service users in Austria and Italy. Health & Social Care in the Community, 00, 1– 12.

New Projects:

• In September 2024, AAL@HzL-VOLLsicher 2024, a collaborative project with the 'Häuser zum Leben' (Houses for Living), was launched to test a digital emergency call system in pilot houses.

• 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).