Main Research Areas:
Aging, Employment and retirement at an advanced age, Aging LGBT, Old-age homes models.
Biography:
Research scholar, Aging Team, Family Group, at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB).
Yitschak Shnoor has worked at MJB since 1995. His main research areas are: work and retirement at an advanced age, special populations among the elderly (LGBTs, Disabled IDF veterans), and the concept of “home” in nursing homes. He is the editor of the Statistical Abstract on the Elderly in Israel, and specializes in the demography of aging and its impact on Israeli society. In recent years, he has addressed the policy of community social services and models for cultural change in old-age homes.
Yitschak holds a BA and MA in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD in public policy for the elderly from the University of Haifa.
Selected Works:
Needs of the Aging LGBT Community in Israel. Shnoor, Y., Berg-Warman, A. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 89(I), 2019.
Employment Programs for Older Adults. Shnoor, Y. The National Insurance Institute, Jerusalem, 2015.
Improvements and Decline in the Physical Functioning of Israeli Older Adults. Spalter, T., Brodsky, J., Shnoor, Y. The Gerontologist, vol 54, 6, 2013.
