GeroPLAN: Perspectives for an interdisciplinary research on aging

老年学是研究衰老过程的基础科学，是一个实际的跨学科研究领域。考虑到人口的年龄结构，老年学研究在卫生政策和社会方面变得越来越重要。但与此同时，在国际比较中，德国缺乏创新的研究建议和青年科学家的良好前景。为了使老年学充分适应当前的社会需求（人口变化、循证预防、适龄工作），迫切需要将生物学、心理学和社会科学领域的研究与临床研究，特别是老年医学、保健和社会科学护理科学相结合和转化。老年病学和老年学研究必须以跨学科的方式扩大，以便能够应对老龄化社会的现有挑战，也能够利用和塑造老龄化的潜力。因此，我们希望通过在老年学领域建立一个早期职业研究者研讨会来促进德国的老龄化研究，该研讨会通过有针对性地指导最佳候选人，为初级研究人员提供科学项目的结构化规划，并协助申请试点研究（1年）。在讲习班内，将确定老年学跨学科联合研究的共同目标，并支持和促进项目合作。GeroPlan研讨会的科学重点是在生物心理社会层面上研究衰老过程中可塑性和恢复力丧失的动态，考虑到因果关系和相互作用模式，以及创新干预概念的发展，以促进可塑性和参与或抵消损失。

Gerontology is the fundamental science of the aging process and an actual interdisciplinary field of research. With a view to the population's age structure, gerontological research is becoming increasingly important in terms of health policy and society. At the same time, however, there is a lack of innovative research proposals and good prospects for young scientists in Germany in an international comparison. In order to position gerontology sufficiently well for current social requirements (demographic change, evidence-based prevention, age-appropriate work), there is an urgent need to integrate and translate research of the fields of biology, psychology and social sciences with clinical research, especially geriatric medicine and health and social sciences nursing science. Geriatric and gerontological research must be expanded in an interdisciplinary manner in order to be able to cope with the existing challenges of an aging society and also to be able to use and shape the potential of aging. Therefore, we want to promote aging research in Germany by founding a Workshop for Early Career Investigators in the field of gerontology, which offers structured planning of scientific projects by junior researchers through targeted mentoring of the best candidates and assists in applying for pilot studies (1 year). Within the workshop, the common goals for an interdisciplinary joint research in gerontology are to be defined and cooperation in the projects is to be supported and promoted. The scientific focus of the workshop GeroPlan is on the dynamics of the loss of plasticity and resilience in the aging process on a biopsychosocial level, taking into account causality and interaction patterns and the development of innovative intervention concepts to promote plasticity and participation or to counteract the losses.