ISBN:
9781351533195
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (490 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Carmel, Sara Aging in Israel : Research, Policy and Practice
DDC:
305.26095694
Keywords:
Older people - Israel
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Volume Editor -- Sources -- Part I Introduction -- Prologue -- Part II Coping with Losses and Changes at Old Age -- 1 Coping with Losses and Past Trauma in Old Age -- 2 Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Definition in Late Adulthood Depression -- 3 Long-Term Bereavement Processes of Older Parents -- 4 Chronically Ill, Old, and Institutionalized -- 5 Self-Identity in Older Persons Suffering from Dementia -- Part III Social Diversity, Quality of Life, and Successful Aging -- 6 Contribution of Social Arrangements to the Attainment of Successful Aging -- 7 The Effect of a Communal Life Style on Depressive Symptoms in Late Life -- 8 The Willingness to Enter a Nursing Home -- 9 Healthy Aging Around the World -- 10 Elders' Quality of Life and Intergenerational Relations -- 11 Correlates of Successful Aging -- Part IV Taking Care of and Caregiving-The Micro and Macro Levels -- 12 Terms of Visibility -- 13 Immigration, State Support, and the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in Israel -- 14 Assisted Living for Older People in Israel -- 15 Fragmentation of Care for Frail Older People-An International Problem Experience from Three Countries -- 16 Old-Age Home in Jerusalem -- 17 A Nursing Home in Arab-Israeli Society -- 18 Life-Sustaining Treatments -- 19 Modernization and Elder Abuse in an Arab-Israeli Context -- 20 A Comparison of Well-Being of Demented vs. Physically Impaired Family Caregivers of Hospitalized Elderly -- Part V Predictors of Survival at Old Age -- 21 Determinants of the Health and Survival of the Elderly -- 22 Mortality Differentials among Israeli Men -- 23 Gender Differences in the Self-Rated Health-Mortality Association -- 24 The Will to Live and Survival at Old Age -- 25 Beyond Keeping Active
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