Publications

Ayalon, L. (2016). Do not hear, see, or speak: Views of older residents and their adult children about the nursing unit in the continuing care retirement community. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(11), 1867-1877.

Ayalon, L. (2016). Intergenerational perspectives on autonomy following a transition to a continuing care retirement community. Research on Aging, 38(2), 127-149. doi: 10.1177/0164027515575029

Ayalon, L. (2016). Perceived age discrimination: A precipitator or a consequence of depressive symptoms? Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw101

Ayalon, L. (2016). Profiles of loneliness in the caregiving unit. The Gerontologist, 56(2), 201-214. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu046

Ayalon, L. (2016). Satisfaction with aging reduces the risk for falling. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(5), 741-747. doi: 10.1017/S1041610215001969.

Ayalon, L. (2016). Transition and adaptation to the continuing care retirement community from a life course perspective: Something old, something new, and something borrowed. Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi: 10.1177/0733464816637851

Ayalon, L., Bodner, E., Avidor, S., Palgi, Y. (2016). Accelerated increase and decrease in subjective age as a function of changes in loneliness and objective social indicators over a four-year period: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Aging & Mental Health, 20(7), 743-751. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1035696

Ayalon, L. & Green, O.* (2016). A typology of new residents’ adjustment to the continuing care retirement community. The Gerontologist, 56(4), 641-50. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu121.

Ayalon, L., Lev, S.*, Green, O.*, Nevo, U* (2016). A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions designed to prevent or stop elder maltreatment. Age and Ageing, 45(2), 216-227. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afv193

Ayalon, L. & Roziner, I. (2016). Satisfaction with the relationship from the perspectives of family caregivers, older adults and their home care workers. Aging and Mental Health, 20(1), 56-64. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1020412

Ayalon, L., Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Roziner, I. (2016). A cross-lagged model of the reciprocal associations of loneliness and memory functioning. Psychology and Aging, 31(3), 255-261. doi: 10.1037/pag0000075

Ben-Harush, A.*, Shiovitz-Ezra, S., Doron, I., Alon, S.,  Leibovitz, A. Golander, H., Haron, Y., &  Ayalon, L. (2016). Ageism among physicians, nurses and social workers: Findings from a qualitative research. European Journal of Ageing, 14(1), 39-48. doi: 10.1007/s10433-016-0389-9

Bodner, E., Ayalon, L., Avidor, S., & Palgi, Y. (2016). Accelerated increase and relative decrease in subjective age and changes in attitudes towards own aging over a four-year period: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. European Journal of Ageing, 14(1), 17-27. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2015.1035696

Dolberg, P.*, Ayalon, L., & Shiovitz-Ezra, S. (2016). Migration and changes in loneliness over a four-year period:  The case of older former Soviet Union immigrants in Israel. European Journal of Ageing, 13(4), 287-297. doi:10.1007/s10433-016-0391-2

Gweirtz-Meydan, A.* & Ayalon, L. (2016). Physicians’ response to sexual dysfunction presented by a younger vs. an older adult. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32(12), 1476-1483. doi: 10.1002/gps.4638

Lev, S.* & Ayalon, L. (2016). Coping with the obligation dilemma:  Prototypes of social workers in the nursing home. British Journal of Social Work, 46(5), 1318-1335. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcv038

Lev, S.* & Ayalon, L. (2016). Moral distress among long term care social workers: Questionnaire validation. Research on Social Work Practice. doi: 10.1177/1049731516672070.

Palgi, Y., Ayalon, L., Avidor, S., Bodner, E. (2016). Changes in Positive and Negative Affect as Predictors of Change in Felt Age: Results from the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Positive Psychology, 12(6). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1221121

Shinan-Altman, S. & Ayalon, L. (2016). Perceptions of older residents and their adult children regarding continuing care retirement community staff. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 1-21. doi: 10.1177/0733464816675420

Shiovitz-Ezra, S, Ayalon, L., Brodsky, J., & Doron, I. (2016). Measuring Ageism Based on Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior:  Findings from an Israeli Pilot Study. Ageing International, 41(3), 298-310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12126-016-9253-7.

Uziel, N.* & Ayalon, L. (2016). Burden and meaning in care among primary caregivers of older adults who receive home care assistance. Gerontology & Geriatrics, 43(2), (in Hebrew).

Ayalon, L., Karkabi, K., Bleichman, I., Fleischmann, S., Goldfracht, M. (2016). Barriers to the Treatment of Mental Illness in Primary Care Clinics in Israel. Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 43(2), 231-40. doi: 10.1007/s10488-015-0634-0.