title: [New housing and life styles for the aged. Aging in a residential community].
abstract: The decision to share a flat and live in community for old people marks the step into a new, unfamiliar life situation. Long-fostered outlooks and attitudes have to be reconsidered and perhaps modified. Living in community requires such vital qualities as self-reflexion and empathy. The new life-style may be cumbersome, often confusing; on the other hand, it strips aging of its character of waning life-time. It renders the later years a proper phase of life offering its own chances.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychologie (Sozialpsychologie), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schachtner
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008019:Life Style; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Neue Wohn- und Lebensformen im Alter. Alt werden in einer Wohngemeinschaft.