[Potentials of the Capability Approach for the Reflection of Participatory Health Research with Older People]

The capability approach (CA) in the tradition of Martha Nussbaum identifies the presence of 10 fundamental capabilities (personal and structural) as prerequisites for a good life. To promote the participation and health of older people through participatory health research, the expansion of these capabilities and the possibilities to realize them must be focused on. Using a reflective secondary analysis of two action research projects in the neighborhood and a nursing home it will be shown how different forms and intensities of participation in participatory projects can be understood by considering existing capabilities, and how the scope and limits of developing collective and individual capabilities can be explored.