Home & Living

Care and support in rural areas can be organized: With the targeted use of technology, well-planned networks and the involvement of civil society and volunteers.

Automation and comfort solutions play a crucial role for people with reduced mobility. Our quality of life in old age depends on how practical and forward-looking we have planned our household. This also relieves the burden on family structures.

The requirements for residential construction change over time. Because we are facing a radical change: the care of the future will increasingly take place at home.

With the demographic challenges, more and more strategies are emerging to offer older people guidance and support and to make their life in cities easier.

In view of global warming, heat protection for senior citizens is a major issue. We use Masdar City/Abu Dhabi as an example of the construction tricks we can learn from heat regions.

In view of the shortage of nursing staff, AI-supported assistance systems for the home are becoming increasingly urgent. In Germany alone, there will be a shortage of over 3 million homes suitable for the elderly and over 600,000 care workers...

Fear of poverty: The concern of no longer being able to afford the cost of living and standard of living remains by far the biggest - ahead of issues such as climate change, unemployment and personal security. What does that...

Our society is ageing and there are not enough care places. Care will increasingly (have to) take place at home. What we should be aware of in order to be able to live within our own four walls despite mobility...

Smart building technologies have been available for more than two decades - the sector is now just starting to develop slowly. We take a look at the reasons: Why developments in the building sector have taken so long?