Publications

Levis, B., Bhandari, P. M., Neupane, D., Fan, S., Sun, Y., Thombs, B. D., … & Takwoingi, Y. (2024). Variability and bias in optimal cutoffs and accuracy estimates due to data-driven cutoff selection: Simulation study using data from 100 PHQ-9 accuracy studies. JAMA network open.

Aharoni Lir, S., & Ayalon, L. (2024). Old, Yet Green–the Prioritization of the Future of Youth in Older-Age-Based Environmental Movements. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1-20.

Ayalon, L. (2025). Towards an intragroup approach to alleviate ageism in the second half of life. The Gerontologist, gnaf169.

Ayalon, L., Okun, S., & Suberry, A. (2025). “The War on Ageism” or How Ageism is Reduced during Wartime. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Ayalon, L., & Okun, S. (2024). “You messed up with the wrong generation”: Intergenerational relations from the perspective of Israeli older protesters. Journal of Aging Studies, 71, 101264.

Ayalon, L., Okun, S., Cohn-Schwartz, E., & Sagi, D. (2024). On intergenerational conflict and solidarity at times of terror and war in Israel: the case of late-life physical vulnerabilities and emotional resilience. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32(5), 639-641.

Okun, S., & Ayalon, L. (2024). Political activism and wellbeing among older adults in Israel. Aging & Mental Health, 28(5), 801-811.

Ulitsa, N., & Ayalon, L. (2024). “We are a generation of slaves. We support the protests but do not take to the streets”: Why older immigrants from the Former Soviet Union are not part of the protests against the Judicial Overhaul in Israel. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 39(1), 35-51.

Das, S., & Ayalon, L. (2025). Ageism, ableism, and their intersection: Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India wave 1. International Psychogeriatrics, 100104.

Awad, R., Suberry, A., Abu-Akel, A., & Ayalon, L. (2025). Heat stress effects on the immune system of older adults: A systematic literature review. Experimental Gerontology, 112777.

Van Hoof, J., Soebarto, V., Ayalon, L., Marston, H. R., Zander, K. K., Dikken, J., & Kazak, J. K. (2025). Ten questions concerning older people and a sustainable built environment. Building and Environment, 274, 112742.

Ayalon, L., Ulitsa, N., Nebowsky, A. E., Schweda, M., & von Kutzleben, M. (2025). Caring for an older person with dementia: Behavioral problems in the eyes of family caregivers and migrant home care workers. Dementia, 14713012251323661.

Ulitsa, N., Nebowsky, A. E., Ayalon, L., Schweda, M., & von Kutzleben, M. (2025). Vulnerabilities in migrant live-in care arrangements for people with dementia: a comparative analysis of experts’ insights from Germany and Israel. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1485270.

Okun, S., Suberry, A., & Ayalon, L. (2025). Middle School Students Portray Childism Via Memes. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1-22.

Segel-Karpas, D., & Ayalon, L. (2025). A Gendered Perspective on Life Satisfaction and Intergenerational Relationships in the Second Half of Life. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 68(4), 537-550.

Dikken, J., Kazak, J. K., Pavlovski, D., Ivan, L., Ayalon, L., Perek-Białas, J. M., & Van Hoof, J. (2025). Four European typologies of older adults concerning environmental sustainability. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 211, 115276.

von Kutzleben, M., Weßel, M., Ulitsa, N., Nebowsky, A. E., Ayalon, L., & Schweda, M. (2025). A conceptual framework for the ethical analysis of moral conflicts in migrant live-in care. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1453948.

Ulitsa, N., & Ayalon, L. (2025). Climate transition and climate adaptation: The experiences of older immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Journal of Aging Studies, 72, 101304.

Roy, S., Ayalon, L., Veitch, G., & Stovell, J. (2024). ‘Because I am a woman, an old woman, I have no voice’: gendered ageism and disempowerment of older women in three African countries. Journal of Global Ageing, 1(2), 238-256.

Ayalon, L., Dikken, J., & Van Hoof, J. (2024). The Age-Friendly cities and communities questionnaire: A validation study of the Hebrew version in Israel. Heliyon, 10(23).

Ayalon, L. (2024). Examining the bi-directional temporal associations between perceived age-based discrimination and perceived neighborhood characteristics. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 7, 100218.

Ayalon, L., & Ultisa, N. (2024). “This is Not My War:” Moral Challenges Faced by Migrant Home Care Workers at Times of War. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice, 2, 11-18.

Suberry, A., Okun, S., & Ayalon, L. (2025). Reducing ageism and enhancing social activism in middle school: the use of diverse measures of ageism. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 44(2), 243-254.

Levy, N., & Ayalon, L. (2024). “We are the future”: Advant-aged women speak-out through spoken word poetry. Journal of Women & Aging, 36(4), 299-313.

Dikken, J., Kazak, J. K., Ivan, L., Ayalon, L., Pavlovski, D., Perek-Białas, J. M., & Van Hoof, J. (2024). Perspectives of older people on environmental sustainability: A cross-cultural validation study between five countries. Journal of Cleaner Production, 447, 141317.

Barak, T., Levkovich, I., & Ayalon, L. (2024). Relationship intimacy in older couples when one partner has mild cognitive impairment: A qualitative study. Family Relations, 73(4), 2730-2744.

Aharoni Lir, S., & Ayalon, L. (2024). Beauty work or beauty care? Women’s perceptions of appearance in the second half of life. Journal of Women & Aging, 36(3), 256-271.

Ayalon, L. (2024). Age differences in the context of climate change: Does exposure to a fake consensus statement make a difference?. Plos one, 19(3), e0298219.

Lir-Aharoni. S.* & Ayalon. L. (2022). Womanhood between oppression and expression in “Miss Granny.” Feminist Media Studies

Ayalon, L., & Okun, S. (2023). The “mother of all protests” meets Israeli older persons: When age and gender intersect in political protests. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gbad172.

Ayalon, L., & Roy, S. (2023). Measurement Development and Validation to Capture Perceptions of Younger People’s Climate Action: An Opportunity for Intergenerational Collaboration and Dialogue. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1-15.

Ayalon, L., Ulitsa, N., AboJabel, H., & Engdau-Vanda, S. (2023). “We Used to Have Four Seasons, but Now There Is Only One”: Perceptions Concerning the Changing Climate and Environment in a Diverse Sample of Israeli Older Persons. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 07334648231212279.

AboJabel, H., & Ayalon, L. (2023). Attitudes of Israelis toward family caregivers assisted by a robot in the delivery of care to older people: The roles of collectivism and individualism. Technology in Society, 75, 102386.

Ayalon, L., de Mendonça Lima, C. A., Banerjee, D., Rabheru, K., & Fitzgerald, K. G. (2023). Older persons in climate change-induced hazards and building forward better: International Psychogeriatric Association, World Psychiatric Association-Section of Old Age Psychiatry, and NGO Committee on Ageing in Geneva position statement. International Psychogeriatrics, 35(11), 589-591.

Ayalon, L., & Roy, S. (2023). The perceived contribution of older people to climate change impact, mitigation, and adaptation: Measurement development and validation. Innovation in Aging, 7(8), igad095.

Ayalon, L., & Bramajo, O. (2023). Perceived Age Discrimination in the Second Half of Life: An Examination of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects. Innovation in Aging, 7(8), igad094.

de Mendonça Lima, C. A., Ayalon, L., Banerjee, D., Peisah, C., & Rabheru, K. (2023). The right to education throughout the life course, advances, and challenges: contribution of WPA-SOAP and IPA. International Psychogeriatrics, 35(8), 407-409.

Ayalon, L., & Roy, S. (2023). The role of chronological age in climate change attitudes, feelings, and behavioral intentions: The case of null results. Plos one, 18(6), e0286901.

Rosenberg, D., Shiovitz-Ezra, S., & Ayalon, L. (2023). Helps you, helps me? Provision of instrumental and personal care and loneliness among adults aged 50 years and older during the COVID-19 pandemic. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 113, 105065.

Okun, S., & Ayalon, L. (2023). And what about self-ageism? “Inner work” as a fifth strategy for the eradication of ageism. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1-17.

Ayalon, L., & Roy, S. (2023). Measurement Development and Validation to Capture Perceptions of Younger People’s Climate Action: An Opportunity for Intergenerational Collaboration and Dialogue. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 1-15.

Ayalon, L. (2023). Perceived neighborhood characteristics and wellbeing: Exploring mediational pathways. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, 102020.

Aloni, O., & Ayalon, L. (2023). Inconsistent and Arbitrary Age-Based Policies During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1-37.

Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Erlich, B., & Ayalon, L. (2023). Short-and medium-term effects of ageism on loneliness experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(6), 1255-1266.

Roy., S. & Ayalon. L. (2023). Intergenerational relations in the climate movement: Bridging the gap
toward a common goal. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(1), 233.

Aharoni Lir, S.,* & Ayalon, L. (2022). The wounded lion–ageism and masculinity in the Israeli film industry. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 811.

Ayalon. L., Ulitsa, N*., Abojabel, H.,* & Engdau-Vanda, S. (2022). Older persons’ perceptions concerning climate activism and pro-environmental behaviors: Results from a qualitative study of diverse population groups of older Israelis. Sustainability, 14(24), 16366.

Ayalon. L. & Segel-Karpas, D (2022). A life course, inter-generational perspective on loneliness. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 98(1), 69-83.

Allen. D. L. *, Bradley. B. D., Ayalon. L. (2022). What’s keeping residents “out of the mainstream”: Challenges to participation in the news media for older people living in residential care. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(6), 1313-1323.

Ayalon. L. & Roy. S.* (2022). The role of ageism in climate change worries and willingness to act. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 42(6), 1305-1312.

Gitlitz., T.* & Ayalon. L. (2023). The Mediating Role of Self-directed Ageism in Sexual Health. Geriatric Nursing, 54, 341-349.

de Mendonça Lima, C. A., Banerjee, D., Ayalon, L., Prasad, R., Rothenberg, K. G., & Rabheru, K. (2022). IPA and WPA-SOAP position statement on deprivation of liberty of older persons with mental health conditions. International Psychogeriatrics, 34(11), 949-952.

Ayalon. L. & Roy. S. (2022). A viewpoint on combatting ageism in the Western Pacific region. The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific, 35, 100593.

Ayalon. L. Dayan. E., & Freedman. S. (2022). Combatting ageism through virtual embodiment? Using explicit and implicit measures. International Psychogeriatrics, 35(3), 157-163.

Roy. S.,*& Ayalon. L. (2022). Ever the father: Caring masculinities among older men in two Bollywood films. The Gerontologist, 63(6), 1078-1086.

Okun. S*., & Ayalon. L. (2022). The Paradox of Subjective Age: Age(ing) in the Self-Presentation of Older Adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 35(10), 566-575.

Levinson, M.*, Ayalon, L., & Benjamini, Y. (2022). Gender homophily and gender distribution in social networks: The case of older adults in long term care settings. Social Networks, 71, 70-79.

Gweirtz-Meydan. A., Opuda., E. & Ayalon. L. (2022). Sex and love among older adults in the digital world: A scoping review. The Gerontologist.

de Mendonça Lima, C.A., Banerjee. D., Ayalon, L., Prasad, R., Rothenberg, K.G., & Rabheru. K. (2022). IPA and WPA-SOAP position statement on deprivation of liberty of older persons with mental health conditions. International Psychogeriatrics

Gewirtz-Meydan, A.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). Reasons people refrain from sex in later life. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1-19.

Okun, S.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). Ageism: the importance of the linguistic concept for the construction of the experience. Ageing & Society, 1-15.

Köttl, H.*, Allen, L. D.*, Mannheim, I.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). Associations between everyday ICT usage and (self-) ageism: a systematic literature review. The Gerontologist.

Peisah, C., de Mendonça Lima, C. A., Ayalon, L., Banerjee, D., De Leo, D., Hwang, T. J., … & Rabheru, K. (2022). An international consensus statement on the benefits of reframing aging and mental health conditions in a culturally inclusive and respectful manner. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-4.

Gazit., T., Nissim., S., & Ayalon, L., (2022). Intergenerational family online community and older adults’ overall wellbeing. Emerald Publishing.

Cohen, L., Sher-Censor, E., Oppenheim, D., Dassa, A., Ayalon, L., & Palgi, Y. (2022). Nursing aides’ mentalization, expressed emotion, and observed interaction with residents with dementia: A quasi-experimental study. Geriatric Nursing, 45, 100-107.

Cohn-Schwartz, E., Schafer, M. H., & Ayalon, L. (2022). Age integration in later life social networks and self-perceptions of aging: examining their reciprocal associations. European Journal of Ageing, 1-9.

Xi, W.*, Zhang, X., & Ayalon, L. (2022). When less intergenerational closeness helps: The influence of intergenerational physical proximity and technology attributes on technophobia among older adults. Computers in Human Behavior, 131, 107234.

Gum, A. M., Green, O.*, Dassa, A., Klausner, K., Gewirtz-Meydan, A.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). Behavioral activation for live-in migrant home care workers and care recipients in Israel: a pilot study. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1-17.

Ayalon, L., Roy, S.*, Aloni, O.*, & Keating, N. (2022). A scoping review of research on older people and intergenerational relations in the context of climate change. The Gerontologist.

Lir, S. A., & Ayalon, L. (2022). “What is right and real–is the storytelling”: masculinity, media and creativity. Creativity Studies, 15(2), 348-363.

Ayalon, L., & Rapolienė, G. (2022). Changes in Attitudes Toward Aging, Older People and Elder Care From the Perspective of Former Migrant Care Workers. Research on Aging, 01640275211069605.

Ayalon, L., & Cohn-Schwartz, E. (2021). Ageism from a cross-cultural perspective: results from a national survey of Israelis over the age of 50. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-9.

Rapolienė, G., & Ayalon, L. (2021). Why People Emigrate to Work in Elder Care?. Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika, 23, 54-67.

Ayalon, L., & Cohn-Schwartz, E. (2021). The Relationship Between Perceived Age Discrimination in the Healthcare System and Health: An Examination of a Multi-Path Model in a National Sample of Israelis Over the Age of 50. Journal of Aging and Health, 08982643211058025.

Xi, W.*, Zhang, X., & Ayalon, L. (2021). The framing effect of intergenerational comparison of technologies on technophobia among older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B.

Segel-Karpas, D., Cohn-Schwartz, E., & Ayalon, L. (2022). Self-perceptions of aging and depressive symptoms: the mediating role of loneliness. Aging & Mental Health, 26(7), 1495-1501.

Ayalon, L., & Lir, S. A.* (2022). “The Internal Police Officer Has Not Retired but Has Slowed Down”: Israeli Women Reframe Their Aging Experiences in the Second Half of Life. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(3), 847-854.

Harel, D.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). A Bibliotherapeutic discourse on aging and masculinity in continuing care retirement communities. Journal of Aging Studies, 101033.

Lir, S. A.*, & Ayalon, L. (2021). “I was born a man-I’m close to myself”: Israeli film directors and cinema in the MeToo era. Journal of Aging Studies, 101039.

Köttl, H.*, Gallistl, V., Rohner, R., & Ayalon, L. (2021). “But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use. Journal of Aging Studies, 59, 100971.

Ayalon, L., & Rapolienė, G. (2021). The disruption of the care chain: why do Lithuanian migrant home care workers return to their home country?. Ageing & Society, 1-17.

Negeri, Z. F., Levis, B., Sun, Y., He, C., Krishnan, A., Wu, Y., … & Thombs, B. D. (2021). Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for screening to detect major depression: updated systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. British Medical Journal, 375.

Köttl, H.*, Tatzer, V. C., & Ayalon, L. (2022). COVID-19 and everyday ICT use: The discursive construction of old age in German media. The Gerontologist, 62(3), 413-424.

Avidor, S., & Ayalon, L. (2022). “I didn’t meet my mother; I saw my mother”: The challenges facing long-term care residents and their families in the age of COVID-19. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 41(1), 22-29.

Aharoni Lir, S.*, & Ayalon, L. (2021). For Better or Worse: A Gendered Outlook of the films The Leisure Seeker and Alaska. Feminist Media Studies, 1-16.

Hamilton, M., Peisah, C., Rabheru, K., Ayalon, L., Verbeek, H., Stoppe, G., & de Mendonça Lima, C. (2021). Understanding Barriers to the Realization of Human Rights Among Older Women With Mental Health Conditions. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(10), 1009-1014.

Cohen, L.*, Sher-Censor, E., Oppenheim, D., Dassa, A., Ayalon, L., & Palgi, Y. (2022). Emotional availability in dyads of nursing aide-resident with dementia: Old tool, new perspective. Dementia, 21(3), 882-898.

Ayalon, L., Keating, N., Pillemer, K., & Rabheru, K. (2021). Climate change and mental health of older persons: A human rights imperative. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(10), 1038-1040.

Allen, L. D.*, Odziemczyk, I. Z.*, Perek-Białas, J., & Ayalon, L. (2021). “We should be at the back of the line”: A frame analysis of old age within the distribution order of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Gerontologist, 61(8), 1317-1325.

Ayalon, L., Peisah, C., de Mendonça Lima, C., Verbeek, H., & Rabheru, K. (2021). Ageism and the state of older people with mental conditions during the pandemic and beyond: manifestations, etiology, consequences, and future directions. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(10), 995-999.

Verbeek, H., Peisah, C., de Mendonca Lima, C. A., Rabheru, K., & Ayalon, L. (2021). Human rights to inclusive living and care for older people with mental health conditions. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(10), 1015-1020.

Peisah, C., Ayalon, L., Verbeek, H., Benbow, S. M., Wiskerke, E., Rabheru, K., & Sorinmade, O. (2021). Sexuality and the human rights of persons with dementia. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 29(10), 1021-1026.

Aharoni Lir, S.*, & Ayalon, L. (2022). The ethos of the auteur as father of the film craft–on masculinity, creativity and the art of filmmaking. Creativity Studies, 15(1), 130-146.

Ayalon, L., & Cohn-Schwartz, E. (2021). Measures of self-and other-directed ageism and worries concerning COVID-19 health consequences: Results from a nationally representative sample of Israelis over the age of 50. Plos one, 16(5), e0251577.

de la Fuente-Núñez, V., Cohn-Schwartz, E., Roy, S., & Ayalon, L. (2021). Scoping review on ageism against younger populations. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(8), 3988.

Lin., H., Chang., Y., Chen., C., Wan Ho., Y., Xi., W., Zhang., X., Fung., H. H., Ayalon., L. (2021). Are older adults more optimistic? Evidence from China, Israel and the US. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences

Ayalon., L. (2021). Trust and compliance with COVID-19 preventive behaviors during the pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Fischer F, Levis B, Falk C, Sun Y, Ioannidis JPA, Cuijpers P, Shrier I, Benedetti A, Thombs BD, and the DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD). (2021). PHQ Collaboration. Comparison of different scoring methods based on latent variable models of the PHQ-9: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Psychological Medicine.

Cohn-Schwartz, E.* & Ayalon., L. (2020). COVID-19 protective behaviors: The role of living arrangements and localities. Journal of Applied Gerontology

Ayalon., L. & Shinan-Altman, S. (2021). Tension between reality and visions: Lessons from an evaluation of a training program of paid elder care workers. Health & Social Care in the Community