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| Institutionalization for the elderly is a novel phenomenon among the Arab population in Israel | | Author(s) | Faisal Azaiza, Ariela Lowenstein, Jenny Brodsky |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 31, nos 3/4, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 65-86 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Institutional accommodation ; Care homes ; Arab ; Islam ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Institutionalisation of senior citizens is foreign to Arab Muslim mores. However, the rapid modernisation process witnessed among the Arab population in Israel is also leaving its mark on the social values of this community: the once axiomatic rule that offspring or close family act as sole caregivers on an older person is losing its strength. Thus, the Arab community is slowly viewing the idea of external caregiving in a more passive light. The aim of this account is to present a primary profile of the older Arab citizen who enters, or already occupies, one of two old age homes for Arabs in Israel. The main features for placement include lack of family, sick and/or invalid partner, childlessness, loneliness, and diminished ADL (activities of daily living). To make retirement homes a meaningful part of rapidly Westernising Arab society, the content of formal services aimed at these citizens is open to re-evaluation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991109221 A |
| Classmark | KV: KW: TKR: TUR: F: 7H6 |
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