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J Munnichs

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PubMed1988

[Social gerontological research as an occupation].

This contribution describes the social gerontological and especially the psychogerontologic research, done during the last 30 years in Nijmegen. During the last ten years this activity was carried out within the Section of Social Gerontology at the University of Nijmegen. From the beginning, the basic attitude was a phenomenological one, which required a theoretical open mindedness, a relative absence of theoretical preconceptions. During the second period we have stressed research of important life events. During the third period the emphasis was on intervention-gerontology; this emphasis will continue in the near future. We are not only aiming for purposeful interventions in the lives of elderly themselves but we will also attempt to demonstrate older persons' unused cognitive and other possibilities. In the end we put the research-contributions of the department of Social Gerontology in this context.

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PubMed1979

[Orientations and models in psychogerontology (author's transl)].

As Baltes and Willis (1977) state: theories, especially psychological theories are scarce in gerontology. When we look at the short history of psychogerontology, we can differ as the first period: the period of the biological model, which offered only a negative image of growing older. This deficit-model has been unmasked, especially by the growing consciousness of the difference between cross-sectional versus longitudinal research-data. Other models as the disengagement model have been stressed. The present development towards a life-span developmental model as the background for every period of the aging process appears as the only basis for a fruitful growth of the science of psychogerontology.

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