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Professor Anna Zisberg, PhD, MA, RN, FAAN

Professor Anna Zisberg is Chair of the PhD Program at Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing and Director of the Center of Research & Study of Aging at UoH. She completed her PhD in Nursing at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Her research contributes to maintaining function and quality of life of frail older adults. Professor Zisberg has published more than 60 articles in international geriatric and nursing journals and presented her work at over 70 national and international conferences.

 

Research Interests:

  • Understanding mechanisms that account for changes in functional and cognitive status in older adults during times of health challenges, such as hospitalization
  • Exploring the effects of organizational structure and quality of care on hospitalization outcomes 
  • Developing and validating instruments and assessment tools to evaluate responses of older adults, their family, and health care staff
  • Working towards an age friendly health care system and society

Keywords:

Acute care; LTC; Function; Hospitalization; Instrument development and testing; Mobility; Older adults; Personal routine; Quality of care; Palliative care; Age friendly

SDG Keywords:

Vulnerable; Disability; Mental health; Access to education; Global education; Vocational training; Ageism; Disabilities; Ethnicity

Recent Publications

 

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Board Chairman

 

 

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Professor Yitzhak Brick, PhD

Professor Brick is a member of the Department of Gerontology at the University of Haifa where he lectures on Policy in the Field of Aging and is the director of the practicum program. He has lectured on Social Service Management at Bar Ilan and Hebrew Universities. He studied Sociology, Education, and Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has a PhD in Social Policy, Planning, and Administration from Brandeis University. Professor Brick held top positions in the Ministry of Welfare for 25 years, including Deputy Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs, and then served as a Director of JDC-ESHEL, the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel for 24 years. Professor Brick serves on many national and international boards and committees concerned with social planning and care of the aged (including the board of the Center of Study and Research on Aging). Professor Brick has been the Chairman of the Israel Gerontological Society since 2013. He is the chair of the advisory council to the Ministry of Equal Rights and Pensionaries and a board member of the Advisory Council to the National Insurance Institute. Professor Brick has edited numerous books, published many articles, and regularly gives lectures at national and international conferences.

 

Research Interests:

  • Social policy for the aged
  • Ageing in place
  • Quality of life of the elderly 

Keywords:

Social exclusion; Geriatrics; Gerontology; Quality of life; Judaism; Poverty

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Academic representatives

Prof. Yuval Palgi
Gerontology department, University of Haifa
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Prof. (emerita) Ariela Lowenstein
Gerontology department, University of Haifa

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Dr. Tova Band Winterstein
Gerontology department, University of Haifa
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Prof. Eliezer Carmeli
Department of Physical Therapy, University of Haifa
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Dr. Maayan Agmon
The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, University of Haifa
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Research Authority representative

Dr. Sharon Link

Research Authority director, University of Haifa

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Public representatives

עו"ס דוד אולמן
לשעבר מנהל השירות לזקן בעירית חיפה
 
ד"ר אפרת גיל
גריאטרית, מרכז רפואי בני ציון, חיפה
 
גב' מיכל פרג,
מנהל בית בלב נשר, מוסד שיקומי-סיעודי
 
גב' דניאלה אלרון
מנכ"לית עמותת שילה לאזרחים ותיקים חיפה

Administrative representative

גב' רחלי בליפנטה-אפוטה
מנהלת הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות, אוניברסיטת חיפה

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Congratulations

Israel 2013

Dir.: Ofra Sarel-Koren

Pro.: Yahaly Gat

Sc.: Ofra Sarel-Koren

DP.: Ron Katzenelson, Guy Refael

Ed.: Bracha Zisman-Cohen

Music: Avi Benjamin

Source: Muse Productions, Kfar Saba

64 min., Hebrew, English Subtitles

Following a long string of illnesses, Shmulik Leshed decided, at the age of 55 and following a health book he read, to turn around the course of his life. In addition to his occupation as a well-known plumber in Haifa, he became a street player and a clown. Since then and to this very day, at the age of 100, he goes around Israel and the world, armed with an accordion, playing and making people happy.

For the past 15 years, Shmulik is accompanied by Mira, a Russian immigrant who is his faithful but exhausted caregiver, forced to follow him in his unexpected adventures and travels abroad. Shmulik refuses to take the tranquilizers his psychiatrist recommends and like the famous bunny in the battery commercial, he never tires. What is Shmulik‘s secret charm? This unpredictable film exposes the demanding, humoristic and compassionate relationship between Shmulik and Mira. It breaks stereotypes surrounding the issues of aging and challenges the reflexive way people perceive Shmulik, dismissing him as a "curiosity item" or just another nutty street beggar. Filmography: Jerusalem Frame by Frame (2012), The Wing Maker (2003), The House Where Cockroaches Die of Old Age (1996)

Twilight of a Life

from Sylvain B. - Zen Productions

The mother of Sylvain Biegeleisen, a film director, is 94 years old, but in her mind she is still 20. She laughs, smokes cigarettes, sings and kisses.

She is confined to bed, and her son spends hours of intimacy with her, which range from complete clarity and assertiveness to moments of loss of memory in which she uses another language, the language of caress.

This is a movie with a great sense of humor, joy and optimism, even when it touches upon the possibility of an imminent separation.

"I'm always fighting", says the mother. "There's always something worth holding out for..."

Best Film Award Docville, Belgium - Best Director Fedeora Award (European & Mediteranean Film Critics) - Best Film Award Docaviv, Israel - Audience Best Film Award CineDocs Tbilissi - Opening Festival Film "Visions du Reel" Nyon Switzerland

Link to: Film website

The FIFTH Annual LFFOA (Legacy Film Festival on Aging), SEPT. 18 – 20, 2015, New People Cinema,1746 Post Street, Japantown, San Francisco

2015 Legacy Film Festival on Aging includes many little-seen, independent short films, documentaries and feature-length narrative stories made in the USA, as well as Australia, Iceland, Ireland, and Israel. We're also showing a few classics that you might've seen, but are still fresh and important.

The 2015 themes are about Love, Sex, Generations, Memory, Friendships, End of Life Choices. 

Israel is represented by two films:

Hibernation (15 min.)
Tomer Werechson, Dir., ISRAEL, 2014
An Israeli short by a grandson who lovingly films his grandfather’s secluded life. The grandfather had brain injuries during the war: so is it Alzheimer’s, or … something else?

 

The Farewell Party (93 min.)
Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit, DirS., Israel, 2014.
A unique, compassionate and unlikely funny story of a group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.

 

Link to the Festival website: http://www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org/

Link to the Festival program: http://www.legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org/pdf/LFFoA_booklet_2015_web.pdf

Memories / Les Souvenirs (2015)

Directed by : Jean-Paul Rouve 
Produced by : NoLiTa Cinema 
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 36 min 
French release: 14/01/2015 
Production year: 2014 

Romain is twenty-three years old. He'd like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel.
His father is sixty-two years old. He is retired and seems to not give a damn about anything. He shares an apartment with a twenty-four-year-old guy whose sole aim in life is to seduce a woman, no matter who, and no matter the cost.
His grandmother is eighty-five years old. She's in an old people's home and wonders what on earth she is doing with stuck with all these old people.
One day, Romain's father turns up in a fluster. His grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her, somewhere in his memories...


More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/37581/memories

 

 

 

Hayuta and Berl

by Amir Manor

First Feature, International Premiere
 
Israel, 2012, 96', Red, 4K, colour
 
screenplay Amir Manor
cinematography Guy Raz
editing Iris Ozer
music Ruth Dolores Weiss
art direction Rotem Cohen, Barak Vazan
cast Yosef Carmon (Berl), Rivka Gur (Hayuta)
 
Hayuta and Beri, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them.
After years of struggle, the two refuse to let go of their dreams and their revolutionary plans to build a welfare state in Israel.
Over the course of a painful night of disillusionment, the two decide to leave their apartment for one last journey.