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Schnall, Itiya; Weiss-Gal, Idit – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
Most of the studies exploring social work education's impact on working with older adults (OA) examine intentions among students. This study goes beyond expressed intention and focuses upon the actual post-graduation career choices of 20 cohorts (1996-2016) of BSW graduates of an OA concentration at an Israeli school of social work. The 203 study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Professional Education, College Graduates
Petersen, Jennifer – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This is the first meta-analysis to examine the outcomes of nonfamilial, intergenerational programs (IGP) on youth and older adults. Relevant studies were identified by screening the abstracts from five systematic reviews on the impact of intergenerational programs on psychosocial outcomes. After all studies were screened 23 independent studies…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Program Effectiveness, Older Adults, Youth
Bachman, Noa; Palgi, Yuval; Bodner, Ehud – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Mindfulness and emotion regulation through music listening are skills that share some attributes with the skill of positive solitude (PS; defined as an inner choice to dedicate time to a meaningful, enjoyable activity or experience managed by oneself, with or without the presence of others). Nevertheless, little is known about their relationship…
Descriptors: Self Control, Metacognition, Music, Listening Skills
Sapir, Adi – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper adopts the concept of a moral economy as a lens through which to analyze the neoliberalisation processes that have transformed the field of higher education in recent decades. Specifically, I consider a case study of the commodification of a senior citizen course-auditing program at an Israeli university in the early 2000s. The program,…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Moral Values, Older Adults
Even-Zohar, Ahuva – SAGE Open, 2022
"At Home" is a program, in which students reside in the homes of older adults. Three studies were designed to evaluate the program. One study was a comparative quantitative investigation that used a cross-sectional survey design aimed at assessing ageism and knowledge of ageing among students. The other two studies were qualitative…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Attitude Measures
Ayalon, Liat; Cohn-Schwartz, Ella – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
Objectives: The present study evaluated the reciprocal temporal associations between one's subjective age (or felt age) and one's social relations in the adult day care center (ADCC) over two waves of data collection, spread about 1 year apart. Method: Participants from four ADCCs in Israel were approached in 2017 and repeatedly, in 2018 (N = 224…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Day Programs
Davidovitch, Nitza; Eckhaus, Eyal – Higher Education Studies, 2020
This study is a pioneer study examining the significance of retirement in terms of lost investments and outcomes. Research findings on the output of academic faculty and on measures of excellence in higher education indicate that upon retirement the academic institution as an organization loses not only faculty who are still capable of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Retirement, Academic Rank (Professional)
Eckhaus, Eyal; Davidovitch, Nitza – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This study is a pioneer study examining the effects of personal and occupational background variables on the attitude of faculty members to an obligatory retirement age in academia. Previous studies on performance measures of academic faculty in research, teaching, academic administration, and contribution to the community, testified to…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, College Faculty, Age, Tenure
Pearlman-Avnion, Shiri; Goldschmidt, Yael; Shamis, Neli – Education and Urban Society, 2020
This study explores the impact of residential environment (urban vs. kibbutz community) and use of information and communication technology (ICT) on loneliness among the elderly in Israel. The quantitative study surveys four sub-populations of people above the age of 65: (a) kibbutz residents who use ICT, (b) kibbutz residents who do not use ICT,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Older Adults, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
Harel-Arbeli, Tami; Wingfield, Arthur; Palgi, Yuval; Ben-David, Boaz M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The study examined age-related differences in the use of semantic context and in the effect of semantic competition in spoken sentence processing. We used offline (response latency) and online (eye gaze) measures, using the "visual world" eye-tracking paradigm. Method: Thirty younger and 30 older adults heard sentences related…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Semantics, Eye Movements, Young Adults
Rimmerman, Arie; Gur, Ayelet; Muraver, Miriam; Yurkevich, Oren – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This study explores whether aging mothers living in two-parent families whose offspring with intellectual disabilities do better in respect to their undesired daily life events, level of social support and well-being scores than mothers of one-parent families and whether there is difference related to their living arrangement (living with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Adults, Intellectual Disability
Stavans, Anat; Ashkenazi, Maya – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Spanish in Israel has been the heritage language (HL) of some 130,000 Spanish speakers. The uniqueness of this immigrant community lays in the evolution, existence and maintenance of Spanish as the (HL). This study showcases Spanish speakers as an example of a well-integrated minority. The results of this study showed that the two first…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Icht, Michal; Mama, Yaniv; Taitelbaum-Swead, Riki – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The aim of this study was to test whether a group of older postlingually deafened cochlear implant users (OCIs) use similar verbal memory strategies to those used by older normal-hearing adults (ONHs). Verbal memory functioning was assessed in the visual and auditory modalities separately, enabling us to eliminate possible modality-based…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Verbal Communication, Older Adults
Klein, Sara; Watted, Shefa; Zion, Michal – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This study focuses on the impact of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project on the development of students' environmental literacy. The project involved high-school students and older adults in the community who learned and worked together on environmental issues developing original initiatives over a period of three years. The…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, School Community Programs, High School Students, Adolescents
Pearlman-Avnion, Shiri; Ron, Noa; Ezekiel, Smadar – Educational Gerontology, 2018
The present study investigates whether social interaction moderates age-related deterioration of theory of mind (ToM) abilities. The study population consists of 65 Israeli adults aged 19-102 with varying degrees of self-reported social interaction. It is hypothesized that as age increases, success at ToM-related tasks will decrease. Second, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Theory of Mind