Older Persons

Senior Faculty

Prof. Yael Benyamini

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):

Developmental Psychology Across the Lifespan.

Prof. Ronit Leichtentritt

Research Topics:
Coping of older adults and their families with end-of-life and the loss of loved ones and friends.

Prof. Belle Gavriel-Fried

Research Topics:
Health and aging.

Prof. Idit Weiss-Gal

Research Topics:

The choice to work in the field of aging among social workers.


Dr. Lia Levin

Research Topics:

Aging and epistemic exclusion, human–nature relationships across the life course.

 

 

Adjunct and Visiting Faculty

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Dr. Tamar Gitlitz

 

Dr. Sara Alon

 

 

 

Dr. Julia Gouzman

Research Topics:

Aging among people with disabilities

 

 

PhD students and postdoctoral fellows

 

Adia Lieberman

Research Topics:
Worlds in dementia A philosophical-empirical study.

 

Dr. Mali Nevo

Research Topics:
Aging in the era of climate change and aspects of social-environmental justice and epistemic justice — towards well-being based on human-nature relationships.

 

 

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, EliezerKnei-Paz, Cigal , Zvi, Lilach , Schnall, Itiya, Gitlitz, TamarGavriel-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). 

 

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