[Improving Structures for Healthy and Self-Determined Ageing in an Urban District]. / Quartiersstrukturen für Gesundheit und Selbstbestimmung im höheren Lebensalter verbessern.

Between 2007 and 2010 the Institut für Gerontologische Forschung e.V. investigated the "Primary Prevention Effects of the Märkisches Viertel Network" in the Berlin district "Märkisches Viertel". The study integrates, amongst others, various participatory methods to investigate the health promotion effects of the volunteer Märkisches Viertel Network, an organisation that brings together different local actors working to assist and encourage older people to live independent lives. Sustained active collaboration by a heterogeneous mixture of actors in a spatially defined quarter, engagement by the local housing association, and increasing acknowledgement of and participation by older residents were identified as success factors for a change in local structures.

[Self-determination and organisation of care in domestic care arrangements]. / Pflegeorganisation und Selbstbestimmung in häuslichen Pflegearrangements.

For provision of care to be successful, receivers of care have to be involved in the decisions concerning their domestic care arrangement. Focused interviews of 27 people receiving care, as well as their domestic carers and, where applicable, professional nursing staff were used to investigate how the specific attitudes and resources of economic, social and cultural capital in the different social milieus influence self-determination and organisation of domestic care. Interviews were conducted in both eastern and western Germany. The results show milieu-specific strengths and weaknesses which should be taken into account when considering measures to stabilise domestic care.