Aging in Israel

In the twentieth century, all developed nations began to undergo unprecedented demographic changes, as their birth rates declined, and life expectancies increased significantly --an average of thirty years in less than a century

Sara Carmel

Sources Part 1: Introduction Prologue-Aging in Israel: Demographic Changes, Societal Adaptation, and Remaining Challenges -Sara Carmel Part 2: Coping with Losses and Changes at Old Age 1. Coping with Losses and Past Trauma in Old Age: The Separation-Individuation Perspective -Liora Bar-Tur and Rachel Levy-Shiff 2. Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Defi nition in Late Adulthood Depression: Personality Predispositions and Protective Factors -Avi Besser and Beatriz Priel 3. Long-Term Bereavement Processes of Older Parents: The Three Phases of Grief -Ruth Malkinson and Liora Bar-Tur 4. Chronically Ill, Old, and Institutionalized: Being a Nursing Home Resident -Hava Golander 5. Self-Identity in Older Persons Suffering from Dementia: Preliminary Results -Jiska Cohen-Mansfi eld, Hava Golander, and Giyorah Arnheim Part 3: Social Diversity, Quality of Life, and Successful Aging 6. Contribution of Social Arrangements to the Attainment of Successful Aging: The Experience of the Israeli Kibbutz -Uriel Leviatan 7. The Effect of a Communal Life Style on Depressive Symptoms in Late Life -Tzvia Blumstein, Yael Benyamini, Zahava Fuchs, Ziva Shapira, Ilya Novikov, Adrian Walter-Ginzburg, and Baruch Modan 8. The Willingness to Enter a Nursing Home: A Comparison of Holocaust Survivors with Elderly People Who Did Not Experience the Holocaust -Sonia Letzter-Pouw and Perla Werner 9. Healthy Aging Around the World: Israel Too? -A. Mark Clarfield, Elliot Rosenberg, Jenny Brodsky, and Netta Bentur 10. Elders' Quality of Life and Intergenerational Relations: A Cross-National Comparison -Ruth Katz and Ariela Lowenstein 11. Correlates of Successful Aging: Are They Universal? -Howard Litwin Part 4: Taking Care of and Caregiving-The Micro and Macro Levels 12. Terms of Visibility: Eldercare in an Aging Nation-State-The Israeli Case -Haim Hazan 13. Immigration, State Support, and the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in Israel -Alisa C. Lewin and Haya Stier 14. Assisted Living for Older People in Israel: Market Control or Government Regulation? -Israel Doron and Ernie Lightman 15. Fragmentation of Care for Frail Older People-An International Problem. Experience from Three Countries: Israel, Canada, and the United States -A. Mark Clarfi eld, Howard Bergman, and Robert Kane 16. Old-Age Home in Jerusalem: Post-Occupancy Evaluation -Naomi Carmon 17. A Nursing Home in Arab-Israeli Society: Targeting Utilization in a Changing Social and Economic Environment -Khalid Suleiman and Adrian Walter-Ginzburg 18. Life-Sustaining Treatments: What Doctors Do, What They Want for Themselves, and What Elderly Persons Want -Sara Carmel 19. Modernization and Elder Abuse in an Arab-Israeli Context -Howard Litwin and Sameer Zoabi 20. A Comparison of Well-Being of Demented vs. Physically Impaired Family Caregivers of Hospitalized Elderly -Sara Meller Part 5: Predictors of Survival at Old Age 21. Determinants of the Health and Survival of the Elderly: Suggestions from Two Different Experiences-Italy and Israel -Antonella Pinnelli and Eitan Sabatello 22. Mortality Differentials among Israeli Men -Orly Manor, Zvi Eisenbach, Eric Peritz, and Yechiel Friedlander 23. Gender Differences in the Self-Rated Health-Mortality Association: Is It Poor Self-Rated Health That Predicts Mortality or Excellent Self-Rated Health That Predicts Survival? -Yael Benyamini, Tzvia Blumstein, Ayala Lusky, and Baruch Modan 24. The Will to Live and Survival at Old Age: Gender Differences -Sara Carmel, Orna Baron-Epel, and Galia Shemy 25. Beyond Keeping Active: Concomitants of Being a Volunteer in Old-Old Age -Dov Shmotkin, Tzvia Blumstein, and Baruch Modan