Ile Kermel Schiffman (Sup. Prof. Perla Werner)
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Background
Ile received her M.A. in Gerontology from Universityof Haifa and her B.A. in Sociology and Education from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem
She currently works at The Alzheimer’s Association of Israel (EMDA) as well as a research assistant in a longitudinal study of a support program for caregivers of people with dementia.
Current Research
Willingness of family caregivers of elderly persons with dementia to undertake advanced care planning for themselves: Examining an expanded model of the theory of planned behavior.
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is the process by which a person defines in advance his/her preferences regarding health care treatments that he or she requests or refuses to receive at end-of-life. In the intermediate and advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, people are limited in their cognitive and physical functioning and cannot make decisions for themselves. Therefore, their family caregivers must cope with making health care decisions for them, besides providing ongoing care for the person with dementia. Given the experience of family caregivers in making health care decisions for their relatives with dementia, the question arises whether they would be willing to undertake Advance Care Planning for themselves—and if so, which factors affect their willingness? The purpose of the study is to examine this question using an expanded model of the Theory of Planned Behavior.
Interests
Advance Care Planning, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, End-of-Life, Decision-making, Theory of Planned Behavior
Publication
Kermel Schiffman, I. (2007). The influence of the social network on life satisfaction of elderly immigrants from South America: A comparison between veteran and new immigrants. Gerontology, 34(2): 59-82.
Kermel-Schiffman I. & Werner P. (2017). Knowledge regarding Advance Care Planning: A Systematic Review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 73, 133-142.
Werner P., Kermel-Schiffman I., David D. & Abojabel H. (2017). Newspaper coverage of Alzheimer's disease: Comparing online newspapers in Hebrew and Arabic across time. Dementia. DOI: 10.1177/1471301217717062
Werner P. & Kermel-Schiffman I. (2017). Exposure to a national multimedia Alzheimer's disease awareness campaign: Assessing stigmatic beliefs towards persons with the disease. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1002/gps.4814