Senior citizen

‘Ad 120’ – From an assisted living network to a network of luxury longevity residential complexes

'Ad 120' network launches a new complex in Modi'in.
The path back to ourselves.

Healing overloaded minds: How Israel's prolonged war is affecting memory, concentration

VOLUNTEERS PRESENT food packages to elderly people in Tel Aviv last year. The pleasure of giving often feels different from the fleeting rush of acquiring something for ourselves, the writer notes.

Caring the elderly: United Hatzalah’s "Ten Kavod" initiative

Palace Tel Aviv

Azrieli Palace Tel Aviv marks 20 years of urban senior living


Hillel's Tech Corner: Sensi.ai provides tech solutions for long-term care

The ability to use artificial intelligence to make the lives of millions of senior citizens that much better is yet another example of how technology can be used to do well by doing good.

Sensi.ai

Beit Shemesh senior citizens receive blankets, warm clothing for Hannukah

The winter packages consisted of a warm blanket, emergency lights, a quilt, a portable heater, warm sheets, and a Hanukkah gift package consisting of a menorah and candles.

An elderly Beit Shemesh resident thanks Ten Kavod volunteers for the winter package donation.

Outbreaks in nursing homes worsened by bureaucratic test bungling

"On every tombstone of an elderly person who died from COVID, will it be written that they died due to the Tender Obligation Law?" Committee chairman Ofer Shelah asked.

THERE IS now a broad social realization that the elderly are the main risk group that needs to be protected.

Coronavirus crisis continues to severely impact Israeli seniors

Over 47% of the respondents reported a poor mental state, including loneliness, depression and even feelings that "in the current situation, life has no meaning."

Two elderly women sit on a bench on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 26, 2020.

Coronavirus vaccines: Which Israelis will be jabbed first?

Medical personnel top the list, while children will be ineligible for inoculation

Hadassah-University Medical Center's Prof. Yossi Karko (left) and Hannah Drori, chief of the hospital’s clinical research center, administer Brilife vaccine to a volunteer

Senior citizens learn how to use social media platforms amid pandemic

They’re also discovered that it’s a lot of fun sharing what they’ve found on the Internet.

RICHARD BRANSON poses on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last year.

300 seniors in capital become homeless

For more than six years, since it became clear to all authorities involved that the seniors’ housing solution at the Diplomat Hotel was reaching its end, meeting followed meeting with no solution.

AN ELDERLY Russian immigrant checks her mail at the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem

When I’m 64: How to live, how to die.

Is there a course of action or proactive measure to prevent this two-sided misery?

GROWING UP, the thought of being in our 60s was as imaginable as say, mobile phones and the Internet.

Coronavirus: Social distancing linked to psychiatric disorders in seniors

The study, published in the American Journal of Geriatic Psychiatry, linked social distancing and isolation with elevated anxiety, depression and even trauma in older adults.

A senior citizen wearing a Watcher, an AI-based wrist-band that monitors healthcare risks.

Thinking about age and growing old

The quickest and most inexpensive facelift is just to smile

HERE ARE little children who may be fascinated by our tales of long ago.