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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

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New luxury retirement complex currently under construction in Ashkelon, August 2022. (Courtesy: David Zwebner)
August 25, 2022, 8:42 pm
New Ashkelon retirement village promises beachside luxury living
Complex overlooking sea to offer 160 apartments for aging residents, complete with amenities and shared spaces; project modeled after US senior living facilities
By Danielle Nagler
Dr. Howard Tucker holds the Guiness World Records certificate recognizing him as the oldest active physician in the United States. (Courtesy Tucker/ via JTA)
July 19, 2022, 3:43 am
At 100, a Jewish doctor in Cleveland is the world’s oldest practicing physician
Dr. Howard Tucker earned the Guinness World Record distinction last year; after passing US bar exam at age 67 and while he still teaches medical residents, he’s got big plans ahead
By Kristen Mott
Magen David Adom workers outside a nursing home in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 15, 2021, 6:12 pm
16 retirement home residents contract COVID-19, most of them vaccinated
All are currently asymptomatic; Health Ministry will investigate if the residents were infected with a variant strain
By ToI Staff
Two elderly women sit on a bench on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem, on October 26, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 16, 2020, 6:46 pm
92% of Israel’s COVID-19 fatalities had existing chronic diseases — report
Those aged 70 or older account for 80% of the 3,000-plus people who have died, with over a third aged 80-89, according Health Ministry figures reported by Haaretz
By ToI Staff
A man in isolation at home during the pandemic (PIKSEL via iStock by Getty Images)
November 5, 2020, 2:00 pm
Lockdown accelerates aging, causes ‘deterioration that can kill’ – geriatrician
Isolation is fast eroding cognitive function, memory and physical ability, says top Jerusalem doctor, urging government to overhaul attitude to elderly
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: An aid worker talks to an elderly woman before a test at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, April 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
June 24, 2020, 2:45 pm
Why some countries suffer more from coronavirus: Israeli prof blames care homes
European countries experiencing high COVID-19 death rates have something in common, finds ‘stunned’ Tel Aviv University researcher; it’s where they house their elderly
By Nathan Jeffay
Rachel Kaufman with her mother Margarete. (Courtesy)
April 14, 2020, 4:48 pm
Amid federal test shortages, LA nursing home works with city to distribute kits
Even with a lack of crucial supplies, the Los Angeles Jewish Home takes early action to protect residents as 3 contract coronavirus; helps similar facilities cope
By Noam Haykeen
A Magen David Adom emergency services worker, wearing protective clothing, arrives to test residents of Jerusalem's Nofim home for the elderly for coronavirus, March 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2020, 10:30 am
Hospital director tapped by ministry to address COVID-19 nursing home fiasco
After 34 coronavirus deaths in homes, and under pressure from High Court, ministry announces that Sourasky head Ronni Gamzu will head virus management in elder care facilities
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of an elderly person with a cane. (oneinchpunch/ iStock by Getty Images)
April 1, 2020, 11:19 pm
COVID-19 is confining some of most vulnerable seniors indoors — at what cost?
CEO of JDC-Eshel, experts in the elderly population, sets out measures to protect susceptible population during and after the pandemic
By Sue Surkes
Retired seniors have so much expertise to pass on, says Esther Hershcovich, an immigrant to Israel from Canada, who is launching the SAGE platform. (Zinkevych/iStock/Getty Images)
March 25, 2020, 4:49 pm
Israeli app taps the wisdom of elders for those stuck at home
Esther Hershcovich designed her English-language site while in COVID-19 quarantine. ‘Elderly have so much to teach. We have so much to learn, and now we have the time’
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Elderly Israelis play cards at a coffeeshop in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, January 10, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90/File)
March 24, 2020, 6:13 am
Behavioral expert: Israelis will never stay at home, but the elderly might
Get most of the country back to normal, quarantine seniors, and take measures to prevent contact between them and younger people, says says Technion scientist
By Nathan Jeffay
A volunteer delivers a package of meals to an elderly resident of Tel Aviv, March 22, 2020. (Oded Karni, Government Press Office)
March 22, 2020, 7:26 pm
State distributes meals to 75,000 housebound elderly in expanding program
Social Welfare Ministry launches ‘unprecedented’ initiative to feed seniors stuck at home because of coronavirus
By Sue Surkes
Medical staff seen after the arrival of a patient to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, over suspicions she may be infected with the Coronavirus on January 27, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2020, 10:21 pm
Man, 88, dies in Jerusalem hospital, Israel’s first coronavirus death
Shaare Zedek says patient was admitted in very serious condition with multiple preexisting conditions; said to be one of several residents of city’s Nofim senior home infected
By ToI Staff
Workers prepare a new ward at the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, for people infected with the Coronavirus, March 19, 2020. (Flash90)
March 20, 2020, 6:00 am
Jerusalem woman with coronavirus, 89, in critical condition — hospital
Condition of nursing home resident worsens, along with 91-year-old woman in very serious condition, putting both at risk of becoming Israel’s first fatalities from disease
By ToI Staff
Amid fears of coronavirus, senior citizens in Tel Aviv sit two meters apart on March 15, 2020. (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)
March 18, 2020, 2:51 pm
As coronavirus spreads, many Israeli seniors stuck at home, isolated and afraid
Those in nursing homes are under lockdown and at risk of contagion, while those at home pass the time as best they can cut off from family, friends and activities
By Simona Weinglass
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