Publications

Ayalon, L. (2011). Abuse is in the eyes of the beholder: using multiple perspectives to evaluate elder mistreatment under round-the-clock foreign home carers in Israel. Ageing & Society, 31, 499-520

Ayalon, L. (2011). Examining satisfaction with live-in foreign home care in Israel from the perspectives of care recipients, their family members, and their foreign home care workers. Aging and Mental Health, 15(3), 376-384

Ayalon, L. (2011). The IQCODE vs. a single-item informant measure to discriminate between cognitively intact individuals and individuals with dementia or cognitive impairment. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 24(3), 168-173

Ayalon, L. (2011). The prevalence and predictors of passive death wishes in Europe: A two year follow-up of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 26 (9), 923-929

Ayalon, L., Gross, R., Yaari, A., Feldhamer, I., Balicer, R., Goldfracht, M. (2011). Characteristics associated with purchasing antidepressant or antianxiety medications through primary care in Israel. Psychiatric Services, 62, 1041-1046

Ayalon, L., Gross, R., Yaari, A., Feldhamer, I., Balicer, R., Goldfracht, M. (2011). Disparities in antidepressant adherence in primary care: Report from Israel. American Journal of Managed Care, 17(9), 340-347

Ayalon, L., Gross, R., Yaari, A., Feldhamer, I., Balicer, R., Goldfracht, M. (2011). Patients’ and physicians’ characteristics associated with the purchase of benzodiazepines by older primary care patients in Israel. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 40 (2), 117-123.

Ayalon, L. & Gum, A. (2011). The relationships between major lifetime discrimination, everyday discrimination and mental health in three racial and ethnic groups of older adults. Aging and Mental Health, 15(5), 587-594.

Ayalon, L. & Shiovitz-Ezra, S. (2011). The relationship between loneliness and passive death wishes in the second half of life. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-9.

Bachner, Y.G., O’Rourke, N., Ayalon, L., Bernard, M. (2011). Comparison of caregiver responses to English and Hebrew language versions of an abridged Zarit Burden Interview. Aging and Mental Health, 15(3), 370-375

Shiovitz-Ezra, S. & Ayalon, L. (2011). Use of direct versus indirect approaches to measure loneliness in later life. Research on Aging, 34, 572-591

Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Ben-Arush, A., Doron, I., Ayalon, L., Golander. H., Alon, S., & Leibovitz, A. (2011). A review of indirect measures of ageism through the use of case vignettes with health professions. Gerontologia, 38, 2-3 (in Hebrew).