Older Persons
Senior Faculty
Research Topics:
Coping with chronic illnesses; perceptions of aging and old age and their relationship to quality of life in midlife and later life.
Courses (2022–2023):
Research Topics:
Coping of older adults and their families with end-of-life and the loss of loved ones and friends.
Research Topics:
The choice to work in the field of aging among social workers.
Research Topics:
Aging and epistemic exclusion, human–nature relationships across the life course.
Adjunct and Visiting Faculty
PhD students and postdoctoral fellows
Adia Lieberman
Research Topics:
Worlds in dementia A philosophical-empirical study.
Noa Frizian-Steinberg
Research Topics:
Predicting the intention to work in the field of aging among social work students.
Recent Publications
Kermel‐Schiffman, Ile, Afuta, May, Zur, Amit, Gavriel‐Fried, Belle. "Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorder among Older Adults: A Scoping Review." Journal of Applied Gerontology (2023).
Kermel‐Schiffman, Ile & Gavriel‐Fried, Belle. "Aging successfully, but still vulnerable: Late life experiences of older adults who have recovered from alcohol use disorder." Geriatric Psychiatry (2022).
Schnall, Itiya & Weiss-Gal, Idit. "Career Choices of BSW Graduates of an Older Adults Concentration: An Analysis of Twenty Cohorts." Journal of Teaching in Social Work 43:1 (2023).
Kopel, Eliezer, Knei-Paz, Cigal , Zvi, Lilach , Schnall, Itiya, Gitlitz, Tamar, Gavriel-Fried, Belle. "‘Someone to Talk to’: A Short-Term Tele-Therapy Intervention with Older People during the Coronavirus Pandemic." British Journal of Social Work (2021).
Benyamini, Yael, & Burns, Edith. "Views on Aging: Older adults' self-perceptions of age and of health." European Journal of Ageing 17 (2020).
Gewirtz-Meydan, Ateret, Hafford-Letchfield, Trish, Ayalon, Liat, Benyamini, Yael, Biermann, Violetta, Coffey, Alice, Jackson, Jeanne, Phelan, Amanda, Voß, Peggy, Geiger Zeman, Marija and Zeman, Zdenko. "How do older people discuss their own sexuality? A systematic review of qualitative research studies." Culture, Health and Sexuality 21 (2019).
Blumstein, Tzvia, Benyamini, Yael, Farhi, Adel, Boyko, Valentina, and Lerner-Geva, Liat. "Knowledge of risk factors and prevention of osteoporosis: The Israeli women's health at midlife study." Archives of Osteoporosis 13 (2018).
Elran-Barak, Roni, Barak, Adi, Lomranz, Jacob, & Benyamini, Yael. "Proactive aging among Holocaust survivors: Striving for the best possible life." Journals of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences 73 (2018).
