News
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We don't have to have deep conversations all the time
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A Steeled Mind
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Swiss Network for Well-Being and Aging
Prof. Mike Martin and Prof. Alexandra M. Freund (both URPP) co-founded, along with others, the "Swiss Network for Well-Being and Aging" (wellbeingnetwork.ch), which is a web of basic and applied researchers spread across Switzerland who are interested in the dynamics of well-being over the lifespan. The URPP is currently responsible for the coordination of this national Network, including its visibility and the planning of upcoming events.
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New German update of the automated text analysis program LIWC has been released
Tabea Meier, Andrea B. Horn and Mike Martin have developed a new German adaptation of the word count program LIWC (“Linguistic Word Count and Inquiry”). The major update for the analysis of German text samples was a cooperation with Markus Wolf (UZH). It is the result of an international collaboration with the “father” of LIWC, James W. Pennebaker, one of the most cited Social Psychologists, Ryan L. Boyd (University of Texas, Austin) and Matthias R. Mehl (University of Arizona, Tucson).
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A guide for relatives of dementia patients
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Brain doping: How to become smarter
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Playfully train the brain
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Memory training doesn't lead to a general increase in cognitive performance
URPP Doctoral Student Sabrina Guye discusses how memory training actually works in the Swiss Bulletin for Memory Training:
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Can cognitive training really make us smarter?
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How to measure quality of life?
URPP Co-Director Prof. Mike Martin outlines in the NZZ the research agenda on Quality-of-Life projects at the URPP and the UZH Center for Gerontology
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What type of memory training works?
URPP Doctoral Student Sabrina Guye explains how and how not to keep our brains fit with memory training in a recent article in the Schweizer Illustrierte:
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How can citizen science change research?
Read the perspective of URPP co-director Prof. Mike Martin in the following Q&A in the the UZH Journal:
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The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) of the UZH was launched
Read more about the kick-off of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), in which the URPP Dynamic of Healthy Ageing is also involved with Prof. Mike Martin as part of the DSI Board of Directors.
UZH News: "The child will still give a lot of joy" (in German)
UZH Journal: "Digitisation is a huge opportunity" (in German; PDF)
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New Head of UZH Senior University
URPP Co-Director Prof. Mike Martin has become the President of the Senior University of UZH since Fall 2016. Read more about it:
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Person-centred health research and the preservation of quality of life
Read the following Curaviva article on the subject of person-centred health research and maintaining quality of life (No. 2, 2015, pp. 36-39):
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Technology for old age
Read the article in the UZH News on the Swiss-Japanese Workshop in Tokyo that took place in March 2015:
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Technology: A look from Switzerland to Japan and back
by Mike Martin, Christina Röcke, Research Focus "Dynamics of Healthy Ageing", University of Zurich, published in Bulletin SAGW:
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Preservation of quality of life despite multimorbidity
In an issue of the Bulletin of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences on "Multimorbidity: A challenge of modern times", you can find the contributions of two of the URPP directors, Prof. Edouard Battegay and Prof. Mike Martin, who co-lead the Competence Centre for Multimorbidity at UZH.
Download (in German; PDF, 1463 KB)
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Article about the URPP DynAge in the UZH Journal
On pages 10 and 11 of the UZH Journal (No. 3, May 2013), read the article: "In Focus Eight New Teams for the Future" or download the article here:
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Presentation of the new URPPs using the example of the URPP DynAge at the Annual Media Conference of the UZH
Read the press release of the University of Zurich's Annual Media Conference:
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UZH Annual Report
You can find relevant information about the URPPs in the UZH Annual Report 2012.