Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Old Age

Monday 28

 

 

 

Talk  ■ Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex at 19:00

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Kruse, is professor in ordinary and director of the Institute of Gerontology (University Heidelberg).The Institute of Gerontology at the University is the leading gerontological institute in the FederalRepublic of Germany and one of the leading institutes in Europe

 

 

 

This presentation argues for the necessity of a comprehensive perspective on old age which integrates developmental potential and vulnerability. This integration is further elucidated in the context of self-understanding and self-design as both a challenge and potential in old age, limit situations and dementia. The following parts of the contribution refer to the ethics of responsibility as an important starting point for a comprehensive understanding of old age, explicate basic positions of an anthropology of old age and suggest a definition of an age-friendly culture as a principal aim of ageing policy and the respective guidance