title: [Tasks, burdens and borderline situations in old age. General discussion].
abstract: In this four-part review article, an update covering the geropsychological research since 1988 in German speaking countries is given as follows: Cognitive development in old age (part I), personality development in old age (part II), social relations in old age (part III), age-related tasks, burdens, and border situations (part IV). In part IV of the update presented in this issue, research contributing to a competence perspective of old age and aging is summarized under four main headings: (1) Independence, everyday life, and everyday competence; (2) aging in spatial, physical, and technical environments; (3) health and coping with illness; (4) coping with death and dying. The article ends with a general discussion considering as well the findings of our survey addressing gerontologists from German speaking countries.
authors.affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Alternsforschung, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Wahl
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kruse
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003071:Cognition; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male