Health, Care & Well-being

Due to demographic development and the associated increase in lifestyle-related diseases, there is a need to address issues of health maintenance and prevention in order to contribute to a longer and healthier life.

The research area Health, Care and Well-being is dedicated to improving the quality of life of people in different life situations with a focus on people with chronic diseases. Projects in the research area pursue questions from the everyday practice of nursing and therapeutic professions.

We cooperate with leading experts and institutions from the health sector, business enterprises, universities in Austria and abroad, as well as with other faculties within the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt.

We perform research and development in the following topics:

Growing old at home
Improving the quality of care for people in need of care
Dementia research
Health promotion and prevention
University teaching concepts in the health sector
Concepts to support coping with daily living (for healthy and sick people as well as social groups)
Person-centredness
Social participation
Theory-practice transfer

Infrastructure:

Access to numerous electronic research platforms and databases via licences
Software for data analysis
Joint library of the University of Applied Science Wiener Neustadt and the city of Wiener Neustadt
Occupational therapy practice labs including practice kitchen
Care Labs with possibility of patient simulations including Room of Horrors
Biomedical analytics training labs
Speech therapy teaching and research practice
Radio Technology Laboratory

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Feel free to contact us: f&e@fhwn.ac.at

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