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Birgit Trukeschitz

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business


Birgit Trukeschitz

Birgit is Co-Director of the Research Institute for Economics of Aging at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She leads the research themes “Digitalisation and long-term care” and “Quality of life and long-term care”. She completed her PhD in Economics and her habilitation in Socioeconomics (venia docendi) at WU. Birgit was a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE, PSSRU), the University of Kent (PSSRU) and the German Center of Gerontology (DZA) in Berlin, Germany.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Austria;
Topics Ageing in place; AI and LTC; Care Homes; Care outcomes; Care work and migration; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; Economics of LTC; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Home/domiciliary care; Information and data systems in LTC; Long term care subsidies; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; LTC Workforce; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Residential LTC services; Social Innovation in LTC; Technology and LTC; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Assessment tool development; Co-production methods; Comparative policy analysis; Economic evaluation; Focus groups; Mixed methods; Observational studies; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Research ethics; Scoping reviews; Thematic analysis; Theory of Change; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Trials and other evaluations;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Technology and Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.wu.ac.at/en/altersoekonomie/team/director-and-deputy-director/dr-birgit-trukeschitz
ORC.ID0000-0002-2307-4200
Research interests
  • Measuring quality-of -life effects of long-term care services
  • Co-creation of digital technologies for long-term care
  • Acceptance, user-experience and effectiveness of digital technologies for long-term care
  • Active and Assistive Living technologies (AAL)
Key publications

Trukeschitz, B., Österle, A., & Schneider, U. (2022). Austria’s Long-Term Care System: Challenges and Policy Responses. Journal of Long-Term Care, 88 – 101. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.112

Trukeschitz, B., Eisenberg, S., Schneider, C., & Schneider, U. (2022). Exploring the effectiveness of a fitness-app prototype for home care service users in Austria and Italy. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2884-e2895. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13733

Trukeschitz, B., Hajji, A., Kieninger, J., Malley, J., Linnosmaa, I., & Forder, J. (2021). Investigating factors influencing quality-of-life effects of home care services in Austria, England and Finland: A comparative analysis. Journal of European Social Policy, 31(2), 192 – 208. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928720974189

Trukeschitz, B., Hajji, A., Litschauer, J., Malley, J., Schoch, A., Rand, S., Linnosmaa, I., & Forder, J. (2021). Translation, cultural adaptation and construct validity of the German version of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for informal Carers (German ASCOT-Carer). Quality of Life Research, 30, 905 – 920. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-020-02682-4

Trukeschitz, B., Hajji, A., Batchelder, L., Saloniki, E., Linnosmaa, I., & Malley, J. (2021). What’s important when caring for a loved one? Population-based preference weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for informal carers (ASCOT-Carer) for Austria. Quality of Life Research, 30(7), 1975 – 1984. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-021-02775-8

Hajji, A., Trukeschitz, B., Malley, J., Batchelder, L., Saloniki, E., Linnosmaa, I., & Lu, H. (2020). Population-based preference weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) for service users for Austria: Findings from a best-worst experiment. Social Science and Medicine, 250(11279), 1 – 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112792