CURRICULUM VITAE
Home address: 8 Kiriaty St., Rishon Le-Zion, Israel
E-mail: [email protected]
Home phone: +972-3-9662517
Cellphone: +972-50-5366274
| PhD, 1998 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Supervisors: Prof. Haim Hazan and Prof. Nissan Rubin |
| MA, 1990 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
Specialization: Sociology of Organizations Supervisor: Prof. Haim Hazan |
| BA, 1987 | Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar Ilan University |
| Administration of care centers for the elderly
1990 |
Diploma studies, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, Haifa University (concurrent with MA studies) |
| Qualification certificate
1990 |
Administration of care centers for the elderly, Ministry of Labor and Welfare |
| Senior Business Management
1999 |
The Recanati Business School, Tel Aviv University (Lahav program for managers) |
| Dates | Name of Institution and Department | Rank/Position |
| 2020 – present | Netanya Academic College:
School of Health System Management |
Head of the M.A. program on Management in Gerontology |
| 2019 | The Academic Center for Law and Science, Hod Hasharon School of Health Management System BA
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Lecturer |
| 2008- present | Netanya Academic College: School of Behavioral Sciences School of Health Management |
Lecturer and researcher |
| 2007-2014 | Ashkelon Academic College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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Lecturer and researcher |
| 2000 | Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, Haifa University | Lecturer in a designated course
for directors of institutions for the elderly |
| 1999 | Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, Haifa University | Lecturer – MA studies in Gerontology |
| 1998 | School of Nursing, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba | Lecturer |
Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution
| 2013 | Chairperson of interdisciplinary conference on ‘The obscurity of the brain and human aging’, Bat-Yam, Israel |
| 2013 | Member of scientific committee, conference on ‘African Refugees in Israel’, Netanya Academic College |
| 2013 | Reviewer of a study for the National Science Foundation, Jerusalem |
| 2013 | Guest editor (with Prof. Rachel Sharaby) of a special edition of ‘Gerontology and Geriatrics’ on old age and immigration |
| 2014 | Chairperson (with Prof. Liat Ayalon) of the biennial conference of the Israel Gerontological Society on “Different aging in an aging world’ |
| April 2014 | Lecture “Existential paradoxes in old age homes”, School of Social Work graduate students, Bar-Ilan University |
| February 2016 | Member of scientific committee, Biennial Conference of Israel Gerontological Society, Tel-Aviv |
| February 2016 | Member of awards committee for old age research, Biennial Conference of Israel Gerontological Society, Tel-Aviv |
| April 2016 | Reviewer of article for “Society and Welfare” (journal of social work and other welfare professionals in Israel) |
| 2017 Jan.
2017 June 2018 |
Reviewer of article for "Hagira: Israel Journal of Migration”
Reviewer of a study for the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research Chairperson (with Prof. Shira Hantman) of the biennial conference of the |
| January 2019
2020 January
2020 2020
2021 January 2022 |
Reviewer of a study for the National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research
Reviewer of a study on: "Promoting volunteers with developmental disabilities to activities with the elderly in an institutional setting", for The Shalem Foundation for serviced people with Intellectual Disabilities in the Local Councils. Chair of session on: Leading urban innovation in the field of aging Biennial Conference of Israel Gerontological Society, Tel-Aviv
Chairperson of awards committee for old age research, Biennial Conference of Israel Gerontological Society, Tel-Aviv
Reviewer of a study on: "A shared reality under threat: The experience of staff and elderly people with developmental intellectual disabilities in the days of Corona", for The Shale m Foundation for serviced people with Intellectual Disabilities in the Local Councils. Chair of session on: Interpersonal and emotional aspects of an aging family The 24th biennial conference of the Israeli Gerontological Society, Tel-Aviv
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| Date | Name of Conference | Place of conference | Subject of Presentation/Comments |
| February 2020 |
23ed Biennial Conference of the Gerontological Society | Tel-Aviv, Israel | Multi-generational housing: the challenge in Israel (with Prof. Dov Chernichovsky and H. Katach-Levi |
| July 2017 | 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics | San Francisco, CA, USA | “Meaning of Life in Old Age and the Preservation of Cognitive Abilities” (with Dr. Hadas Erel) |
| July 2017 | 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics | San Francisco, CA, USA | “Meaning of Life and Preservation of Cognitive Abilities: Their Linkage to the Place of Living in Old Age” (with Dr. Hadas Erel) |
| July 2016 | 9th Global Conference – Inter-culturalism, Meaning and Identity | Mansfield College, Oxford U.K. | “Parts of Identity among Leaders of Immigrants” (with Prof. Rachel Sharaby) |
| February 2016 | 21st Biennial Conference of the Gerontological Society | Tel-Aviv, Israel | “Meaning Makes You Cognitively Young” (with Dr. Hadas Erel) |
| January 2014 | 20th Biennial Conference of the Israel Gerontological Society | 21st Biannual Conference of the Gerontological Society | “The old person’s last home” |
| September 2013 | International Conference of the Ethiopian Jews Research Association: “Ethiopian Jewry after 35 years in Israel – A 2013 perspective” | College of Management and Tel-Aviv University | “Between ‘meaning’ and ‘resistance’ – Ethiopian priests in Israel” |
| July 2013 | 16th International Conference of Judaism Sciences | Hebrew University, Jerusalem | “Ethiopian Rabbis in Israel: Between the Rabbinical Establishment and the Ethnic Community” (with Prof. Rachel Sharaby) |
| November 2012 | Conference at Netanya Academic College as part of the 2012 International Day of Older Persons | Netanya Academic College, Israel | Lecture: “Elderly Ethiopians in Israel: Between traditionalism and globalism”
Panel moderator: “Ethiopian leaders in Israel: Between the Hammer of the Establishment and the Anvil of the Ethnic Community” |
| June 2012 | 21st Nordic Congress of Gerontology | Copenhagen, Denmark | “Invisibility and social exclusion – the elderly priests of the Ethiopian immigrants in Israel” |
| May 2012 | Seminar on old age and immigration in Israel: “Ethiopian leadership, between personal visibility and social exclusion” | Ashkelon Academic College | “Presentation of findings of a pioneer study on the Ethiopian elderly” |
| March 2012 | Biennial Gerontology Conference of the Israel Gerontological Society | Tel Aviv, Israel | “The Ethiopian elderly in Israel” |
| 2011 | Conference of the Israeli Sociology Association | Tel Aviv, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa | “Generation of the desert”: Traditional leadership in an intercultural transition |
| 2010 | National Gerontological Conference | Netanya Academic College | Organization, moderation and production of conference
“Old age in the 21st century: Between biology and ideology” |
| 2010 | Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association | Raanana: Open University | “The Ethiopian chief Kessoch in the time tunnel: Alienated identity in processes of modernization in Israel” |
| 2010 | Biennial Israel Gerontological Conference | Tel Aviv: David International Hotel | “Kessoch in Israel, alienated identity” |
| 2009 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Netanya Academic College | Organization, moderation and production of conference
“The rise of life expectancy: Creativity among the elderly” |
| 2005 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Tel Aviv | “The social aspect of the right to die at home” |
| 2001 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Tel Aviv | “A poetry group as a survival strategy in a total organization” |
| 1998 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Jerusalem | “Old age in a postmodern society” |
| 1990 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Bat Yam, Israel | “Meaning and control in the world of the elderly in a total organization” |
| 1988 | Israel National Gerontological Conference | Jerusalem | “Different dimension in the daily life of the elderly in old age homes” |
| Date | Place of Lecture | Name of Forum | Presentation/Comments |
| February 1922 |
Ministry of Health Division of Geriatrics | Department of Nutrition
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Who did you call an old man? |
| January
2019 |
Shalvata Hospital Hod Hasharon |
The Israeli Old age Psychiatry Association | The Last Home for the Aged: Living in a Contemporary Old Site |
| April 2018 | Ministry of Health, Dental Health Division | Conference for dentists in the health system | “Old age in a global world” |
| November 2017 | Social Entrepreneurship – Integration of senior citizens in the labor market | “The meaning of life in old age” | |
| October 2015 | Netanya Municipality | Commemoration of the 100th issue of 60+ journal | “Meaningful life in old age” |
| 2011 | Eilat, Israel | Annual Conference of the Association of Old Age Homes and Sheltered Housing in Israel | Panelist: “Sheltered housing and nursing care in Israel” |
| 2009 | Research grant of 400,000 NIS for a 3-year period, granted by the Research Fund for Insurance Issues of the Israel Insurance Association.
Research topic: Etiology of excess-involvement of the elderly in traffic accidents, and examination of the relevant cultural factors |
| 2000 | 8,000 NIS prize from the Schnitzer Foundation for Research on the Israeli Economy and Society, Bar Ilan University |
2019 School of Health Management System – B.A., The Academic Center for
Law and Science, Hod Hasharon: Selected issues in gerontology
2015- School of Health Management Systems –M.A. Netanya Academic College:
present Sociology &Anthropology Of Aging; Social Aspects and Community Health
Organizations; Seminar on Aging and Culture
2009 – School of Behavior Sciences, Netanya Academic College:
present Introduction to Sociology; Introduction to Anthropology; Social Change;
Everyday Issues in the Life of Old People; Seminars on aging and culture
2008 – of Sociology & Anthropology, Ashkelon Academic College:
2014 Sociology of Old Age; Anthropology of Old Age; Aged Living Facilities
Organizations; Everyday Issues in the Life of Old People; Seminars on aging
and old age
2000 Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies, Haifa University (Designated
course for directors of institutions for the elderly): Sociology & Anthropology of
Old Age; Living in Old Age Homes
1999 Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies, Haifa University: M.A. in
Gerontology
1998 School Of Nursing, Ben-Gurion University: Seminar on Gerontology
| 2000-2006 | Development of a business entrepreneurship plan in the field of services for the elderly population living at home, according to the "aging in place" perception. |
| 1991-2000 | Director of a sheltered housing home. Setting up a managerial infrastructure, recruiting and placing approximately 100 employees who came from diverse occupations (medicine, nursing, social work, maintenance, vendors and administration). Operation of services for 200 elderly residents on various levels of functioning; development of health and social services. Operation of health services with a marketing-business orientation. Responsibility for the operational budget. Conducting study workshops, seminars and training. |
| 1990-1991 | Gerontologist-consultant to an entrepreneur company in the stage of founding sheltered housing for the elderly (when it was opened to the public I was appointed director). Work with a potential target audience, with marketing and advertising bodies. Training sales agents on gerontology. |
| 1987-1989 | Administrator (dealing with administrative and financial issues) in a health institute, part of a large governmental center. |
| 1980-1983 | Administrative coordinator of a voluntary organization at a government health center that dealt with recruiting financial resources. |
Kaplan, A. (1998). Attendees-Absentees in "Oasis" – Life in Contemporary Old Age Site. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University.
Under the supervision of Prof. Haim Hazan and Prof. Nissan Rubin
Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2014). Like Mannequins on Display: Ethiopian Immigrant Leaders in Israel. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, A. (2013). A Prelude to Paradise: Life at a contemporary old age site. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2012). “Invisibility and social exclusion: The elderly priests of the Ethiopian immigrants in Israel" In D. Soen, M. Shechory, S. & Ben David (Eds.), Minority Groups: Coercion, Discrimination, Exclusion, Deviance and the Quest of Equality. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers Inc., pp. 211-226.
Kaplan, A. (2006). “Death is the future – On the culture of death and the end of life”. In Y. Doron (Ed.), At Home and not at an Institution – on the Right to Die at Home. Jerusalem: Eshel – The Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel, pp. 37-71. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, A. (2002). “Attendees-absentees in ‘Oasis’: Existential paradoxes in a contemporary old age site”. In Y. Brick (Ed.), The Politics of Old Age, the Elderly Population of Israel on the National Order of Priorities. Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Eshel, pp. 219-235. (Hebrew)
Erel, H. & Kaplan, A. (under review). Meaning of life in old age and the preservation of cognitive abilities. The Gerontologist.
Sharaby R. & Kaplan, A. (2017). "Others" within their people: Spiritual leaders of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Dvarim – academic journal, multi-disciplinary, online. (Hebrew).
Kaplan, A. & Sharaby R. (2017). Variations of identities among the leaders of a minority group of immigrants. Social Identities – Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 24(3), 403-411.
Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2015). Complexity of identity and tactics of resistance among religious leaders of immigrants. Social Identities – Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 21(6), 562-572
Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2015). Ethiopian Rabbis in Israel: Between the Hammer of the Rabbinical Establishment and the Anvil of the Ethnic Community. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 14(3), 482-500.
Kaplan, A. & Sharoni, G. (2014). Research report: Etiology of excess-involvement of the elderly in traffic accidents. Published on the website of the Association of Insurance Companies in Israel. (Hebrew)
Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2013). Old Ethiopians in an intercultural transition in Israel. Gerontology and Geriatrics, 40(2-3), 49-78. (Hebrew – the authors were guest editors)
Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2013). Splinters of identity among the priest of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Israeli Sociology, 15(1), 58-82. (Hebrew)
Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2011). Ethiopian religious leaders of the 1.5 generation: Between integration and resistance. Sociological Papers, 16, 95-109.
Kaplan, A. (1997). Sheltered housing – The costume and what lies underneath. Gerontology, 77, pp. 95-103. (Hebrew)
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