The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100

The present and future of our society are shaped by an ever-increasing proportion of old and very old people. The Berlin Ageing Study is a large inter-disciplinary effort exploring old age and ageing. Important aspects of the study are the spectrum of scientific disciplines involved, the range of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary research topics, the focus on very old age (70 to over 100 years) and the empirical reference to a representative heterogenous urban population. The study reports its first cross-sectional findings in this book. They include intellectual abilities, self and personality, social relationships, physical health, functional capacity, medical treatment, mental disorders such as depression and dementia, socioeconomic conditions, activities, everyday competence, subjective well-being, and gender differences.