Publications

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.

Ayalon, L., Nevedal, A., & Briller, S. (2018). Capturing change and stability in longitudinal qualitative research: insights from a study about aging and life transitions in Israeli continuing care retirement communities. Educational Gerontology, 44(12), 753-765.

Palgi, Y., Ayalon, L., Avidor, S., Segel-Karpas, D., & Bodner, E. (2018). On the edge: The association between extreme values of proportional felt-age and functioning. Psychiatry research, 270, 538-543.

Segel-Karpas, D., Ayalon, L., & Lachman, M. E. (2018). Retirement and depressive symptoms: A 10-year cross-lagged analysis. Psychiatry research, 269, 565-570.

 

Nevedal, A. L., Ayalon, L., & Briller, S. H. (2018). A qualitative evidence synthesis review of longitudinal qualitative research in gerontology. The Gerontologist, 59(6), e791-e801

Ayalon, L., Yahav, I., & Lesser, O. (2018). From a Bird’s Eye View: Whole Social Networks in Adult Day Care Centers and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. Innovation in Aging, 2(3), igy024.

Ayalon, L. (2018). Loneliness and anxiety about aging in adult day care centers and continuing care retirement communities. Innovation in Aging, 2(2), igy021.

Levkovich. I. *, Gewirtz-Meydan, A. *, Karkabi, K., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Views of family physicians on heterosexual sexual function in older adults. BMC family practice, 19(1), 86.‏

Ayalon, L. (2018). Examining alternative items for the assessment of perceived ageism. Educational Gerontology, 1-9.‏

Shinan-Altman, S., Riabzev, A. *, & Ayalon, L. (2018). Mixed motivations to provide formal care to older adults: Lessons from a training program. International Psychogeriatrics.

Grean, O., * & Ayalon, L. (2018). “Home is where my couch is”: The role of possessions in the process of moving and adjusting to continuing care retirement communities. Qualitative Health Research. doi: 1049732318780350.‏

Green, O. *, & Ayalon, L. (2018). Violations of workers’ rights and exposure to work-related abuse of live-in migrant and live-out local home care workers–a preliminary study: implications for health policy and practice. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 7(1), 32

Gewirtz-Meydan, A. *, Hafford-Letchfield, T., Ayalon, L., Benyamini, Y., Biermann, V., Coffey, A., … & Zeman, Z. (2018). How do older people discuss their own sexuality? A systematic review of qualitative research studies. Culture, health & sexuality, 1-16.‏

Dolberg, P., Goldfracht, M., Karkabi, K., Bleichman, I., Fleischmann, S., & Ayalon, L. (2019). Knowledge and attitudes about mental health among older immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel and their primary care physicians. Transcultural psychiatry, 56(1), 123-145.

Shamir, H. *, Shinan-Altman, S., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Perceptions of death and aging among terminally ill older adults. Society and Welfare. In Hebrew

Levis, B. *, Benedetti, A., Riehm, K. E., Saadat, N., Levis, A. W., Azar, M., …Ayalon, L… & Gilbody, S. (2018). Probability of major depression diagnostic classification using semi-structured versus fully structured diagnostic interviews. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 212(6), 377-385.

Ayalon, L. (2018). Between older adults’ needs and the law: The Israeli Long Term Care Insurance Law from the Perspectives of Service Users and Providers. Health & Social Care in the Community

Gweirtz-Meydan, A., Levkovich, I., Mock, M., Gur, U., & Ayalon, L. (2018). Promoting a discussion on later life sexuality: Lessons from sexologist physicians. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/14681994.2018.1437258

Kave, G., Fridkin, S. *, & Ayalon, L. (2018). Demographic factors and retrieval of object and proper names after age 70. PloS One, 13(1).  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191876

Ayalon, L. (2018). Family relations and elder care among Arabs in the North of Israel. Research on Aging. doi: 10.1177/0164027517749612

Ayalon, L. & Levkovich, I. (2018). A Systematic Review of Research on Social Networks of Older Adults. The Gerontologist.‏ doi: 10.1093/geront/gnx218

Ayalon, L. & Rothermund, K. (2018). Examining the utility of national indicators of relative age disadvantage in Europe. European Journal of Ageing, 15(2), 189-197.‏ doi: 10.1007/s10433-017-0435-2

Lev. S., * & Ayalon, L. (2018). A typology of social workers in long term care facilities in Israel. Social Work, 63(2), 171-178.‏ doi: 10.1093/sw/swy002

Lev, S. * & Ayalon, L. (2018). Development and content validation of a questionnaire to assess moral distress among social workers in long term care facilities. Social Work in Health Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2017.1414096

Segel-Karpas, D., Ayalon, L., & Lachman, M. E. (2018). Loneliness and depressive symptoms: the moderating role of the transition into retirement. Aging & mental health, 22(1), 135-140. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2016.1226770