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SHARE-Israel is the Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status as well as social and family networks of more than 45,000 individuals aged 50 or over...

History

Israel joined the SHARE framework in late 2004, becoming the first country in the Middle East to initiate systematic study of its aging population in the American Health and Retirement Study

Health and Retirement Study

The Health and Retirement Study is conducted by the at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and supported by the National Institute on Aging . The study interviews 22,000 Americans 50 and over every two years on subjects like health care, housing, assets, pensions , employment and...

tradition. SHARE-Israel is implemented by the Israel Gerontological Data Center (IGC), founded by the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport.It is currently supported by the Israeli Ministry of Pensioners Affairs SHARE-Israel is directed by Howard Litwin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; ; abbreviated HUJI) is Israel's second-oldest university, after the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The Hebrew University has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest Jewish studies library is located on its Edmond J...

, with assistance from a multidisciplinary team of expert consultants from the United States, Europe and Israel.

Data collection

The first wave of data collection in SHARE-Israel — carried out in 2005-2006 — encompassed 2,598 respondents aged 50 and over (and their spouses of any age) residing in 1,771 households. Data collection was funded by the US National Institute on Aging

National Institute on Aging

The National Institute on Aging ' is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health , located in Baltimore, Maryland.The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life...

, the Israeli National Insurance Institute and the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development. National Institute on Aging has subsequently provided support for the archiving of the data, in collaboration with the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging is the world’s largest repository of secondary data on aging and health. NACDA’s mission is to advance research on aging by providing easy access to secondary data and by providing research support for this data.-Description:A program within the...

(NACDA).

SHARE-Israel provides unique points of reference for international comparison in the study of aging. First is the diversity of the elderly cohort within the State of Israel, which is composed of: 1) Jewish-Israelis - most of whom immigrated to Israel through 1989, 2) Arab citizens of Israel

Arab citizens of Israel

Arab citizens of Israel refers to citizens of Israel who are not Jewish, and whose cultural and linguistic heritage or ethnic identity is Arab....

, and 3) immigrants from the Former Soviet Union after 1989

Aliyah from the Commonwealth of Independent States in the 1990s

Russian Jewish immigration to Israel began en masse in the 1990s when the liberal government of Mikhail Gorbachev opened the borders of the USSR and allowed Jews to leave the country for Israel.-History:...

. Second is the distinctive set of conditions that characterize the elderly Israeli population. One such example is the unique life trajectories of many older Israelis who experienced significant and multiple dislocations during their lifetimes, because of war, migrations (many impelled) and economic adversity.

The Israeli survey instrument addresses demographic details, physical health, grip strength, walking speed, behavioral risks, cognitive function, mental health, health care, employment and pensions, children, social support, financial transfers, housing, household income, consumption, assets and future expectations. In addition, the SHARE-Israel questionnaire includes two domains not yet addressed in SHARE:

Measure of life-long trauma, including exposure to the Holocaust - Respondents are asked to indicate difficult life events that they have experienced and the degree to which they were affected by them. The 17 events in the list range from war and terror related incidents to personal bereavement and distress. A separate inventory chronicles respondents' exposure to the Holocaust.
Examination of reactions to pension reform, that is, the delay of eligibility for retirement benefits in Israel. This section addresses awareness of the legislated delay in the age of eligibility for retirement pension in Israel (men to age 67 and women to age 64), perceptions about implications of the change in pension age, information regarding personal plans for employment or retirement in light of the change, and sources of income that will be used to bridge the period between retirement and receipt of the pension, if early retirement is indeed contemplated.

Conclusions

SHARE-Israel's first wave shows that the nature of older Israelis and the circumstances in which they live indeed differ across the three major population groups. The diversity among Israeli population groups provides additional points on the scale of social and economic development among the SHARE countries, thus enriching the SHARE "laboratory" as a resource for scientific inquiry into the life circumstances and their changes in an ageing world.

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