Summary: Gerontopsychology is still a step-child in Austrians clinical psychology. To improve this situation a section for gerontopsychology has been created in the Austrian Society for Geriatrics and Gerontology in 2000. The following papers are the ...

Summary: Cognitive deficits are a core feature of dementia. Neuropsychological assessment can detect cognitive symptoms even at early stages of disease. Moreover, neuropsychological assessment of dementia yields a detailed evaluation of cognitive ...

Summary: When taking a person in long-term care in the geriatric center Wienerwald all possibilities of rehabilitation are exhausted. Psychometric diagnostic by means of a standard test battery is the basis for the planning of clinical-psychological and ...

Summary: Relocation into a nursing home or into residential care means substantial stress and strain for elderly people with sometimes plain impairment in psychological well-being. A pilot study was designed for the implementation of a psychological ...

Summary: Psychological variables play a prominent role when it comes to the course and outcome of geriatric rehabilitation, but empirical research is rare in this regard. In the present work, N = 90 older adults (M = 78.8; 84 % women) were assessed before ...