Perceived Social Support, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and War-Related Stress: Unraveling the Nexus with Treatment Burden in Adult-Child Caregivers During War.

Adult-child caregivers encounter various challenges due to their array of roles and tasks, often leading to a substantial sense of treatment burden. While previous research has explored factors contributing to treatment burden, much of it has centered on routine periods, leaving a gap in the understanding of this issue during crisis situations characterized by heightened stress and uncertainty. Therefore, this study aims to address this gap by investigating the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and war-related stress in the relationship between perceived social support and treatment burden among adult-child caregivers during the Israel-Hamas war.

"I Want to Tell You Something, but Not Here": Governmental Inspection teams' Challenges in Identifying Mistreatment in Nursing Homes.

This study explores the challenges faced by the Ministry of Health's inspection teams in identifying mistreatment within Israeli nursing homes. Four focus groups with 19 multidisciplinary inspectors revealed two main themes. First, the interaction between nursing home management, staff, and inspectors ranged from denial and concealment of mistreatment to cooperation in reporting it.

Social Workers' Perceptions Regarding Legal Intervention for Older Adults without Significant Cognitive Decline Who Are Abused by Their Adult Child.

Social workers aiding older adults facing abuse from their adult child confront an ethical dilemma: whether to honor autonomy or prevent harm. The study explores how social workers perceive legal intervention against the older adult's will. Twenty-one aging-specialized social workers took part in semi-structured interviews using a vignette.

"Let me touch him": Perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel.

Older adults in nursing homes were particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 morbidity and mortality worldwide. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, visitations in nursing homes were restricted. The present study examined the perceptions and experiences of family caregivers of nursing home residents during the COVID-19 crisis in Israel and their coping strategies.

Can Physical, Psychological, and Social Vulnerabilities Predict Ageism?

Ageism can be expressed as the discrimination, social exclusion, and even abuse of older adults. The literature suggests that certain vulnerabilities could be risk factors affecting people's ageism. Based on the Social Identity Theory, the present study aimed to examine the association of physical/psychological and social vulnerabilities with ageism.

"They just did what they usually do": Mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing homes from the perspective of Ministry of Health auditing teams.

The aim of this article was to examine how Ministry of Health auditing teams experience quality of care, mistreatment, abuse, and neglect in nursing homes in Israel. The research included four in-depth focus groups consisting of 19 multidisciplinary auditors. The qualitative analysis was encoded in stages with repeated comparisons between individual participants and within groups and led to three main themes: (1) Failure in addressing basic, personal, and social needs of residents in nursing homes; (2) Mistreatment manifested in violation of residents' privacy and human dignity, neglect, and physical harm; (3) Abuse, including psychological, financial, and physical abuse.

"You Killed the Hospital, They Have No Place Left": The Experience of Nursing Home Multidisciplinary Staff in Israel during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The purpose of the present study is to examine how multidisciplinary staffs experienced and coped with the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in nursing homes. The research included six in-depth online focus groups consisting of 21 multidisciplinary staff members from 14 Israeli nursing homes. The qualitative analysis was encoded in stages with repeated comparisons between individual participants and within groups and led to four main themes: (a) Multidisciplinary staff perceptions of nursing home management's performance in relation to them, which was experienced as insufficient appreciation and feelings of abandonment among the non-medical staff; (b) Multidisciplinary staff perceptions of the Ministry of Health's performance, which was experienced as chaotic and disconnected albeit supportive on the personal level; (c)The nursing home multidisciplinary staff experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of perceived stress and burnout, as well as development of a routine; (d) The multidisciplinary staff's coping strategies, which included commitment to work despite risk, redefinition of their role, and staff insights about the need to take responsibility for their role and not rely on outside help.

Forms of sexual assault against older women in the context of acquaintance relationships: An intersectional perspective.

This study addresses forms of sexual assault against women in late life (SAWLL) from an intersectional perspective, focusing on acquaintance relationships. Qualitative research was conducted, using in-depth interviews with 18 welfare and healthcare professionals who treated sexual assault survivors. Five forms (themes) emerged, relevant to the identification of SAWLL: (1) Coercive sexual assault in the context of changes brought on by old age, (2) contempt and sexual humiliation based on ageist and sexist social constructions, (3) violation of the older women's dignity in the multigenerational context, (4) life-long incestuous relationships and sexual assault against older women and (5) erotic touching and exhibitionism in caregiving relationships.

The Interplay Between Poly-Victimization and Sexual Assault in Late Life in the Context of Life Course Perspective.

The aim of this article is to explore the interplay between poly-victimization and sexual assault against women in late life (SAWLL) according to the life-course perspective. Two themes emerged from qualitative interviews with 18 experienced welfare and health care professionals who intervened in cases of SAWLL: sexual assault by a spouse co-occurring with other types of abuse within marital relationships, and sexual assault and other types of abuse by two or more perpetrators along the life course. In many cases, SAWLL is an expression of a broader experience of poly-victimization, which relates to vulnerability in old age.

"Who Would Sexually Assault an 80-Year-Old Woman?": Barriers to Exploring and Exposing Sexual Assault Against Women in Late Life.

The phenomenon of Sexual Assault against Women in Late Life (SAWLL) has received increasing research attention in recent years. Yet, there is still only scant knowledge on it, compared with research on the sexual assault of younger women. Sexual assault is considered a sensitive topic, generally characterized by a conspiracy of silence.

What Can We Learn From the Past About the Future of Gerontology: Using Natural Language Processing to Examine the Field of Gerontology.

Objectives: We thematically classified all titles of eight top psychological and social gerontology journals over a period of six decades, between 1961 and February 2020. This was done in order to provide a broad overview of the main topics that interest the scientific community over time and place.

Method: We used natural language processing in order to analyze the data.

Breaking the Taboo: Sexual Assault in Late Life as a Multifaceted Phenomenon-Toward an Integrative Theoretical Framework.

Sexual assault (SA) in late life has been receiving growing attention over the past two decades. It is directed primarily against older women and has been the least frequently reported form of abuse. Despite the growing awareness and body of knowledge on this phenomenon, the theoretical framework is still limited.

A Typology of Social Workers in Long-Term Care Facilities in Israel.

This article explores moral distress among long-term care facility (LTCF) social workers by examining the relationships between moral distress and environmental and personal features. Based on these features, authors identified a typology of LTCF social workers and how they handle moral distress. Such a typology can assist in the identification of social workers who are in a particular need for assistance.

Development and content validation of a questionnaire to assess moral distress among social workers in long-term care facilities.

Objective: Despite the significance of ethical issues faced by social workers, research on moral distress among social workers has been extremely limited. The aim of the current study is to describe the development and content validation of a unique questionnaire to measure moral distress among social workers in long-term care facilities for older adults in Israel.

Methods: The construction of the questionnaire was based on a secondary analysis of a qualitative study that addressed the moral dilemma of social workers in nursing homes in Israel.

Coping with the Obligation Dilemma: Prototypes of Social Workers in the Nursing Home.

We examined the ways in which the social worker is coping with obligation dilemma in an Israeli nursing home. The research was conducted using semi-structured, in-depth interviews carried out with fifteen social workers employed in nursing homes. The interviews were analysed thematically, using constant comparisons.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions designed to prevent or stop elder maltreatment.

Background: elder maltreatment is a major risk for older adults' mental health, quality of life, health, institutionalisation and even mortality.

Objectives: to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions designed to prevent or stop elder abuse.

Methods: Studies that were posted between January 2000 and December 2014, written in English, specifically designed to prevent or stop elder maltreatment were included.

Running between the raindrops: the obligation dilemma of the social worker in the nursing home.

The authors examined perspectives of social workers working in nursing homes concerning their obligation to the older adult, the family, and the facility, and identified the dilemmas and difficulties that arise from these sometimes conflicting obligations. Authors conducted semistructured in-depth interviews with 15 social workers employed in nursing homes in Israel. Inter-theme consistencies and contradictions were elucidated, and descriptive and then interpretive categories were created to represent interview data.