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Author Carmel, Sara

Title Aging in Israel : Research, Policy and Practice
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (490 pages)
Contents 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 Life8 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 Jerusalem17 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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Subject Aging -- Israel
Older people -- Israel
Aging
Older people
Israel
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351533195
1351533193