Sara Carmel

Aging in Israel

Research, Policy and Practice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 873g
• ISBN-13: 9781412811644
• ISBN-10: 1412811643
• Artikelnr.: 26438848

Autorenporträt

Sara Carmel

Inhaltsangabe

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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