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The Berlin-based research consortium Autonomy Despite Multimorbidity in Old Age (AMA) pursues research that will contribute to sustained improvement in the situation of older adults living with multiple illnesses. The consortium’s research focuses on resources that can help older adults with multiple illnesses to maintain independent living and everyday competence.

As part of its “Health in Old Age” program, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has granted the Berlin-based project and five other national research consortia funding for an initial 3-year period starting in January 2008.

The AMA consortium’s seven projects unite scientists based at various Berlin institutes in an interdisciplinary approach to questions of multimorbidity, quality of life and autonomy in old age.

The institutions participating in the AMA consortium are four institutes and clinics of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the German Centre of Gerontology (DZA), the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the Freie Universität Berlin (FU), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), the Institute for Gerontological Research (IGF), and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences.

The Steering Committee of the AMA consortium is composed of:
■ Professor Adelheid Kuhlmey, Charité - Institute of Medical Sociology
■ Professor Clemens Tesch-Römer, German Centre of Gerontology
■ Professor Matthias Riepe, Ulm University, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II

Further information on the background and the objectives of the research consortium as well as the research questions being addressed within the seven projects is available on the websites of the member institutions.