Home & Living

If you are building, buying or renovating a house in or for old age, it is best to think without thresholds. We give tips on how to recognize whether a house is suitable for old age - and how to...

Traveling is a part of quality of life. For people traveling with a wheelchair or rollator, it often takes a little more planning. We have put together some tips on how to make barrier-free travel safe, comfortable and relaxed.

Heat doesn't have to be a risk - if you know how to protect yourself. We provide tips on cooling in summer, what technical tools are available and how to react in an emergency.

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.

Adapting the living environment for the elderly means designing living spaces in such a way that people can live in them safely for as long as possible.

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...