Aging in Israel: Research, Policy and Practice

504 Pages·2009·3.465 MB·English

by  Sara Carmel

ii The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
Volume Editor
Sara Carmel, Ben-Gurion University
Editorial Board
Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv University
Shlomo Deshen, Tel-Aviv University
Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Bar-Ilan University
Elihu Katz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ernest Krausz, Bar-Ilan University
Yochanan Peres, Tel-Aviv University
Menachem Rosner, University of Haifa
Yitzhak Samuel, University of Haifa
Judith T. Shuval, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Introduction iii
First published 2010 by Transaction Publishers
iv The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
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Aging in Israel : research, policy and practice / Sara Carmel, editor.
p.cm. -- (Schnitzer studies in Israeli society ; v. 13)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4128-1164-4 (cloth : alk. paper)--ISBN 978-1-4128-1165-1 (pbk.
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1. Aging--Israel. 2. Older people--Israel. I. Carmel, Sara, 1943-
HQ1064.I7A32 2009
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Introduction v
Contents
Sources ix
Part 1: Introduction
Prologue—Aging in Israel: Demographic Changes, 3
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: 27
The Separation-Individuation Perspective
Liora Bar-Tur and Rachel Levy-Shiff

2. Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Defi nition in 43
Late Adulthood Depression: Personality Predispositions
and Protective Factors
Avi Besser and Beatriz Priel
3. Long-Term Bereavement Processes of Older 79
Parents: The Three Phases of Grief
Ruth Malkinson and Liora Bar-Tur
4. Chronically Ill, Old, and Institutionalized: 105
Being a Nursing Home Resident
Hava Golander
5. Self-Identity in Older Persons Suffering from 123
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 149
Attainment of Successful Aging: The Experience of
the Israeli Kibbutz
Uriel Leviatan
vi The Historiography of Psychoanalysis
7. The Effect of a Communal Life Style on Depressive 169
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: 189
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? 203
A. Mark Clarfi eld, Elliot Rosenberg, Jenny Brodsky, and
Netta Bentur
10. Elders’ Quality of Life and Intergenerational 213
Relations: A Cross-National Comparison
Ruth Katz and Ariela Lowenstein
11. Correlates of Successful Aging: Are They Universal? 239
Howard Litwin
Part 4: Taking Care of and Caregiving—The Micro and Macro Levels
12. Terms of Visibility: Eldercare in an Aging Nation- 261
State—The Israeli Case
Haim Hazan
13. Immigration, State Support, and the Economic 277
Well-Being of the Elderly in Israel
Alisa C. Lewin and Haya Stier
14. Assisted Living for Older People in Israel: 301
Market Control or Government Regulation?
Israel Doron and Ernie Lightman

15. Fragmentation of Care for Frail Older People— 317
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 335
Naomi Carmon
Introduction vii
17. A Nursing Home in Arab-Israeli Society: 351
Targeting Utilization in a Changing Social and
Economic Environment
Khalid Suleiman and Adrian Walter-Ginzburg
18. Life-Sustaining Treatments: What Doctors Do, 363
What They Want for Themselves, and What Elderly
Persons Want
Sara Carmel
19. Modernization and Elder Abuse in an Arab-Israeli Context 377
Howard Litwin and Sameer Zoabi
20. A Comparison of Well-Being of Demented vs. 397
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 411
the Elderly: Suggestions from Two Different Experiences—
Italy and Israel
Antonella Pinnelli and Eitan Sabatello
22. Mortality Differentials among Israeli Men 437
Orly Manor, Zvi Eisenbach, Eric Peritz, and Yechiel Friedlander
23. Gender Differences in the Self-Rated Health— 453
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: 473
Gender Differences
Sara Carmel, Orna Baron-Epel, and Galia Shemy
25. Beyond Keeping Active: Concomitants of Being 481
a Volunteer in Old-Old Age
Dov Shmotkin, Tzvia Blumstein, and Baruch Modan

Sources
We wish to gratefully acknowledge the permission to use copyrighted mate-
rial granted by journals and publishers.
Part 2: Coping with Losses and Changes at Old Age
Ch. 1 is reprinted from: Bar-Tur, L., & Levy-Shiff, R. (2000). Coping with losses
and past trauma in old age: The separation-individuation perspective. Journal of
Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 5(2-3), 263-282. Reprinted by kind permission
from Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
Ch. 2 is reprinted from: Besser, A., & Priel, B. (2005). Interpersonal relatedness
and self-defi nition in late adulthood depression: Personality predispositions,
and protective factors. Social Behavior and Personality, 33, 351-382. Reprinted
with kind permission from Social Behavior and Personality: An international
journal.
Ch. 3 is reprinted from: Malkinson, R., & Bar-Tur, L. (2004). Long term be-
reavement processes of older parents: The three phases of grief. Omega 50 (2),
103-129. Reprinted with kind permission from Omega Journal.
Ch. 4 is reprinted from: Golander, H. (1995). Chronically ill, old and institution-
alized: Being a nursing home resident. Family and Community Health, 17(4),
63-79. Reprinted with kind permission from Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.
Ch. 5 is reprinted from: Cohen-Mansfi eld, J., Golander, H., & Arnheim, G.
(2000). Self identity in older persons suffering from dementia: Preliminary
results. Social Science & Medicine, 51(3), 381-394. Reprinted with kind per-
mission from Elsevier.
Part 3: Social Diversity, Quality of Life and Successful Aging
Ch. 6 is reprinted from: Leviatan, U. (1999). Contribution of social arrangements
to the attainment of successful aging- The experience of the Israeli Kibbutz.
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