Research focuses

• Ethical, social and legal questions regarding the beginning of life, ageing and the end of life (e.g. autonomy and decision-making at the end of life, concepts of participatory decision-making)
• Implementation of AI and robotics in the health sector (e.g. effects of algorithms, health apps, diagnostics and forecasting procedures, technology assessment)
• Music therapy: Interventions and effect research of music therapy, assessment
  and micro process research, interdisciplinary research on non-medical non-drug therapeutic interventions
• Support for caregiving relatives of demented people, and for siblings of children with severe illnesses
• Social work in the context of end-of-life-care, screening of palliative care needs and implementation of care paths
• Local issues and solutions for the aging society, care situation and possible improvements in retirement homes and hospitals
• Prevention, promotion of health, rehabilitation (e.g. medical and health psychology, promotion and maintenance of mental health, corporate health management and behavioural prevention of work accidents and health hazards, patient-orientation and counselling techniques)
• Psychiatry (compulsory treatment, compulsory measures and their reduction, and connection of mental illness and effect of the illness on children, stigma avoidance, concepts of participative decision-making)