Publications

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 Networks71, 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 Nursing45, 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 Behavior131, 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 Studies15(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 praktika23, 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 Health26(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 Gerontology41(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 Studies59, 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 Journal375.

Köttl, H.*, Tatzer, V. C., & Ayalon, L. (2022). COVID-19 and everyday ICT use: The discursive construction of old age in German media. The Gerontologist62(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 Gerontology41(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 Psychiatry29(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. Dementia21(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 Psychiatry29(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 Gerontologist61(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 Psychiatry29(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 Psychiatry29(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 Psychiatry29(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 Studies15(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 one16(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 health18(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

Ayalon., L. & Avidor., S. (2021). “We have become prisoners of our own age”: From a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. Age and Ageing

Ayalon., L. (2021). The global care network and its impact on sending and receiving countries: Current knowledge and future directions. Ageing and Society

Ayalon., L. & Segal-Karpas., D. (2021). When she worries I worry too: COVID-19 worries in the context of daughters’ and mothers’   relations. Research on Aging.

Vitman., A. & Ayalon., L. (2020). The relationship between satisfaction with the accessibility of the living environment and depressive symptoms in people 65 and older. Journal of Environmental Psychology

Koren, C., & Ayalon., L. (2020). Envy and Jealousy of Living Apart Together (LAT) Relationships in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC): Perspectives of staff and residents. British Journal of Social Work

Roy., S*& Ayalon., L. (2020). “Goodness and kindness”: Long distance caregiving through volunteers during the COVID-19 lockdown in India. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Allen., L.* & Ayalon., L. (2020). “It’s Pure Panic”: The portrayal of residential care in American newspapers during COVID-19. The Gerontologist

Kottel, H.*, Cohn-Schwartz, E.* & Ayalon., L. (2020) Self-perceptions of aging and everyday ICT engagement: A test of reciprocal associations. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Cohn-Schwartz, E.* & Ayalon., L. (2020) Societal views of older adults as vulnerable and a burden to society during the COVID-19 outbreak: Results from an Israeli nationally representative sample. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Levkovich, I., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., & Ayalon, L. (2020). Communicating with older adults about sexual issues: How are these issues handled by physicians with and without training in human sexuality? Health and Social Care in the Community.

Xi, W*., Xu, W*., Zhang, X., Ayalon, L. (2020). A thematic analysis of Weibo topics (chinese twitter hashtags) regarding older adults during the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Ben-Harush, A*., Ayalon, L., Shinan-Altman., S. (2020). Turning community elder care into a profession: Insights from developers, employers, supervisors and trainees. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Ayalon, L., Zisberg, A., Cohn-Schwartz, E., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Perel-Levin, S., Bar Asher-Sigal, E. (2020). Long term care settings in the times of the COVID-19: Challenges and future directions. International Psychogeriatrics

Ayalon, L., Chasteen, A., Diehl, M., Levy, B., Neupert, S. D., Rothermund, K., … & Wahl, H. W. (2020). Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Ayalon, L. (2020). There is nothing new under the sun: Ageism and intergenerational tension in the age of the COVID-19 outbreak. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-11.

Cohn-Schwartz., E.*, Segal-Karpas, D. & Ayalon, L. (2020). Longitudinal dyadic effects of aging self-perceptions on health.  Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences

Ayalon, L. (2020). Life in a world for all ages: From a utopic idea to reality. Journal of Elder Policy

Ayalon, L., Lev, S., Lev, G. (2020). What can we learn from the past about the future of gerontology: Using natural language processing to examine the field of gerontology. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Levis et al. for the DEPRESSED collaboration (2020). Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination with the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA

Ayalon, L. & Cohn-Schwartz, E.*(2020). The reciprocal temporal associations of subjective age and social relations in adult day care centers over a one-year period. International Journal of Behavioral Development

Vitman, A.* & Ayalon, L. (2020). Older adults’ mental maps of their spatial environment: Exploring differences in attachment to the environment between participants in adult day care centers in rural and urban environments. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

Fridman, S.,* Schindler, M. & Ayalon, L. (2020). No magic solutions: Social workers’ perceptions concerning the guardianship of older adults. Gerontologia

Levkovich, I., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., & Ayalon, L. (2020). Communicating with older adults about sexual issues: How are these issues handled by physicians with and without training in human sexuality? Health and Social Care in the Community.

Xi, W*., Xu, W*., Zhang, X., Ayalon, L. (2020). A thematic analysis of Weibo topics (chinese twitter hashtags) regarding older adults during the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Ben-Harush, A*., Ayalon, L., Shinan-Altman., S. (2020). Turning community elder care into a profession: Insights from developers, employers, supervisors and trainees. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Ayalon, L., Zisberg, A., Cohn-Schwartz, E., Cohen-Mansfield, J., Perel-Levin, S., Bar Asher-Sigal, E. (2020). Long term care settings in the times of the COVID-19: Challenges and future directions. International Psychogeriatrics

Ayalon, L., Chasteen, A., Diehl, M., Levy, B., Neupert, S. D., Rothermund, K., … & Wahl, H. W. (2020). Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Ayalon, L. (2020). There is nothing new under the sun: Ageism and intergenerational tension in the age of the COVID-19 outbreak. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-11.

Cohn-Schwartz., E.*, Segal-Karpas, D. & Ayalon, L. (2020). Longitudinal dyadic effects of aging self-perceptions on health.  Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences

Ayalon, L. (2020). Life in a world for all ages: From a utopic idea to reality. Journal of Elder Policy

Levis et al. for the DEPRESSED collaboration (2020). Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination with the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA

Ayalon, L., Lev, S., Lev, G. (2020). What can we learn from the past about the future of gerontology: Using natural language processing to examine the field of gerontology. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences

Levis, B., for the DEPRESSED collaboration. (2020) Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Ayalon, L., Feliciano, L., Areán, P.A. (2005) Aging changes that affect communication. In K.L. Mauk (Ed.). Gerontological Nursing: Competencies for Care.  Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp. 87-

Ayalon, L. (2010). Foreign home care workers in Israel- The role of human rights organizations. Transnational Carework: Legal Framework, Social Practices, Socio-political Challenges. Part 4 (pp. 77-288).

Arean, P.A., & Ayalon, L. (2010). Preventing depression relapse in older adults. In C. S. Richards & M. G. Perri. Relapse Prevention for Depression. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Arean, P.A., & Ayalon, L. (2010). Major depression. In J. Thomas and M. Hersen. Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies. New York: Springer. pp. 637-670.

Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Ayalon, L., Brodsky, J. (2013). Measuring and evaluating ageism. In Israel (Issi) Doron (Ed.). Ageism in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer. (Hebrew)

Ayalon, L. & Meir, A.* (2013). Predictors of change in cognitive function among older Israelis by population group. In L. Achdut and H. Litwin (Eds.). The Financial, Health and Social Status of Older Israelis: Findings from the Second Wave of SHARE-Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer. (Hebrew). pp. 1-20

Ayalon, L. (2013). The last year of life: First results from the end of life interviews. In L. Achdut and H. Litwin (Eds.). The Financial, Health and Social Status of Older Israelis: Findings from the Second Wave of SHARE-Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer. pp. 1-14. (Hebrew)

Ayalon, L. & Koren, C. (2015). Marriage, second couplehood, divorce and singlehood in old age. P. Lichtenberg, B. Mast & J. Wetherell (eds.). APA Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology. American Psychological Association. pp. 617-644.

Ayalon, L. & Arean, P.A. (2017). Counseling and support needs of dementia caregivers. In BJ Sadock, VA Sadock, P Ruiz. (Eds.), Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Ninth Edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Lev, S., Wurm, S., & Ayalon, L. (2018). The origins of ageism at the individual level. In Ayalon, L. & Tesch-Roemer, C. (Eds.). Contemporary perspectives on ageism (pp. 51-72). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Gewirtz-Meydan, A.*, Hafford-Letchfield, T., Benyamini, Y., Phelan, A., Jackson, J., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Ageism and sexuality. In Ayalon, L. & Tesch-Roemer, C. (Eds.). Contemporary perspectives on ageism (pp. 149-162). Berlin, Germany: Springer.

Chen., A. X.*, Tsang., V-A., L.*, Wong., J.T.K.*, Fung., H., H., & Ayalon., L. (2019). Three Ways that Ageing Affects Women Differently from Men: Menopause, Changes in Physical Appearance and Caregiving. Cambridge International Handbook on Psychology of Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Roy, S*& Ayalon, L. (2019). Age and gender stereotypes reflected in Google’s “Autocomplete” function: The portrayal and possible spread of societal stereotypes. The Gerontologist

Shinan-Altman, S., Soskolne, V., & Ayalon, L. (2019). Becoming a Home Care Worker: Job-Seekers’ Push and Pull Factors. Research on aging, 0164027519886176.

Ayalon, L. & Gweirtz-Meydan, A.* (2019). Physicians’ moral dilemmas in the age of Viagra. Men and Masculinities

Ayalon., L. (2019). Sense of belonging to the community in continuing care retirement communities and adult day care centers: The role of the social network. Journal of Community Psychology

Ayalon, L. (2019). Perceived Discrimination and Stigma in the Context of the Long-Term Care Insurance Law from the Perspectives of Arabs and the Jews in the North of Israel. International journal of environmental research and public health16(19), 3511.

Segal-Karpas, D. & Ayalon, L. (2019). Loneliness and hostility in older adults: a cross-lagged model. Psychology & Aging

Shinan-Altman, S., Gum., A., Ayalon, L. (2019). Moving to a continuing care retirement community or staying in the community? A comparison between American and Israeli older adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology  0733464819879015

Gweirtz-Meydan, A.* & Ayalon, L. (2019). “Shades of grey”: Exploring public opinion about later-life sexuality. Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement

Ayalon, L., Dolberg, P., Mikulionienė, S., Perek-Bialak, J., Rapoliene, G., Stypińska, J., Willińska, M., & de la Fuente Núñez, V. (2019). A systematic review of existing ageism scales. Ageing Research Reviews

Ayalon, L. (2019). Social network type in the continuing care retirement community. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Ayalon, L., Gewirtz-Meydan, A.*, Levkovich, I.*, & Karkabi, K. (2019). Older men and women reflect on changes in sexual functioning in later life. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1-21