Gail K Auslander
Biographic Data
| ID | 281928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail K Auslander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail K |
| FAMILY NAME | Auslander |
| SIGNATURE | AUSLANDER G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies
Data Mining for Social Work Students: Teaching Practice-Based Research in Conjunction with a Field Work Placement
Although research studies are important for social work students, the students rarely like research classes or see their value. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one group of BSW students was encouraged to carry out the required research in their field work setting, the Hadassah University Medical Center. Students used data mining, that is, the analysis of existing data, to answer their research questions. As a preliminary step, the instruct…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Special Issue: Research on Social Work Practice in Israel
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the recognition of social work as an academic discipline in Israel. The country’s first academic school of social work was established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1958 in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ministry of Welfare. As part of Israel’s first university, that prides itself on its research accomplishments, faculty members were among the first soci…
What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era
Families' and Professional Caregivers' Views of Using Advanced Technology to Track People With Dementia
in this study we examined the ethical aspects of the use of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track people with dementia. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups of family and professional caregivers. The most important theme was the need to balance patients' need for safety with the need to preserve their autonomy and privacy. The main potential benefit of the use of GPS was related to the peace of mind of the…
Social Work Discharge Planning in Acute Care Hospitals in Israel: Clients’ Evaluation of the Discharge Planning Process and Adequacy
Objective: To examine the associations of patients’ characteristics, hospitalization factors, and the patients’ or family assessment of the discharge planning process, with their evaluation of adequacy of the discharge plan. Method: A prospective study. Social workers from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel provided data on 1426 discharged patients. At 2-week postdischarge, 407 patients and 659 family members evaluated the discharge planning proce…
Attitudes of Family and Professional Care-Givers towards the Use of GPS for Tracking Patients with Dementia: An Exploratory Study
This study examined the attitudes of family and professional care-givers towards the use of advanced electronic tracking such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for elderly people with dementia. The study revealed four principal findings. First, care-givers' views ranged from feeling obligated to use the tracking device for the sake of patients' safety through support of the use of the device for the sak…
Help seeking and barriers to utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union
The study aimed to examine utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing recent and long-term immigrants, to identify barriers to service utilisation, and to examine factors related to utilisation. Participants (n = 402) recruited from a random community sample of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, aged 55 and over, residing in urban areas throughout the country were interviewed by telephone. Using an expande…
The supportive community: Help seeking and service use among elderly people in Jerusalem
New and innovative services are needed to meet the needs of the growing elderly population of Israel. One such program is the “supportive community” program, which aims to provide a range of critical services to older people in the community. This study followed the response of 181 older residents of the northern quarter of Jerusalem to an invitation to subscribe to this new program and the extent of service utilization among those who joined. An…
Newspaper Coverage of People with Disabilities in Canada and Israel: An international comparison
In this research study we compared how three Canadian and three Israeli newspapers wrote about people with disabilities over a 3-month period. The comparison included structural variables, such as the length of the articles, where they appeared, whether photographs were used, etc. We also examined content variables, such as who the main character was, the details used to describe this individual or group, and what governmental agencies, service p…
Disability terminology in the media: A comparison of newspaper reports in Canada and Israel
Factors Related to Congruence Between Social Worker and Client Problem Definitions in an Acute Care Hospital
Problem definition in social work may be the source of disagreement between social workers and their clients. It can be affected by both client and worker characteristics, as well as the care-giving context. This paper examines the definitions of psycho-social problems by social workers and their clients in a general hospital. It is based on the analysis of interviews with 120 patients and their social workers, which were conducted towards the co…
The Administrative and Posthospital Care Outcomes of Discharge Planning: Preliminary Results of an Experimental Intervention
Early and comprehensive discharge planning is a widely accepted and anticipated social work role. It is generally supposed that discharge planning has positive implications for both the hospital and the patient. A research project was designed to assess the effects of a staff development program aimed at instituting a comprehensive discharge planning model by social workers in a general hospital in Israel. One group of patients received social wo…
Social Networks, Social Support, and Self-Ratings of Health among the Elderly
Social networks and the support they may provide have been shown to be important determinants of the health of the elderly. This study compares structural and support aspects of those networks in their relationship with self-latings of health among 200 elderly residents of the city of Jerusalem. Perceived social support was found to be a more important predictor of health than were measures of network structure. Further, the relation between supp…
Correlates of Social Worker Contact with Clients' Family Networks
The study examined the degree of social worker contact with the family networks of a sample of new elderly applicants (N = 122) to the social welfare services of Jerusalem. Greater contact was correlated with frail status of the client and a request for institutional care. A curvilinear relationship was found with network accessibility. These correlations disappeared, however, when degree of family initiated contact with the social worker was con…
Sociability and Patterns of Participation: Implications for Social Service Policy
In policy circles, a response to meeting human needs through social networks and voluntary organizations is increasingly viewed as a substitute for publicly provided services. While prior research suggests that participation in these two types of voluntary activity may be related, the relationship is little understood. A secondary analysis of national survey data was carried out using bivariate and multivariate techniques to ascertain the relatio…
Between Social Networks and Formal Social Services
This article reports a study of the social networks of recent applicants to the social welfare bureaux of Jerusalem. Beyond review of the relevant study variables as reflected in the literature, and an overview of Israeli social services for the aged, the article addresses why the social networks of the elderly claimants turned to formal assistance. The study revealed that networks were most likely to be the source of referral to social services …
Social Networks and the Poor: Toward Effective Policy and Practice
A social network approach to social welfare is gaining in popularity. A study of a large random sample of adults, however, revealed significantly fewer network resources among the poor than among higher income groups. Therefore, the authors assert that social workers must avoid addressing the problems of the poor solely through informal networks and target network interventions carefully to achieve maximum effectiveness
The Parameters of Network Intervention: A Social Work Application
Parallel to the recent expansion of knowledge about social networks and their implications for physical and emotional well-being, there has been a move by social policymakers and social work practitioners to engage actively in network interventions. These interventions are employed, for the most part, independently of theoretical developments in this area. This article builds on a review of network theories to present an analytical paradigm. By p…
What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era
Disability terminology in the media: A comparison of newspaper reports in Canada and Israel
Social Networks, Social Support, and Self-Ratings of Health among the Elderly
Social networks and the support they may provide have been shown to be important determinants of the health of the elderly. This study compares structural and support aspects of those networks in their relationship with self-latings of health among 200 elderly residents of the city of Jerusalem. Perceived social support was found to be a more important predictor of health than were measures of network structure. Further, the relation between supp…
Social Networks and the Poor: Toward Effective Policy and Practice
A social network approach to social welfare is gaining in popularity. A study of a large random sample of adults, however, revealed significantly fewer network resources among the poor than among higher income groups. Therefore, the authors assert that social workers must avoid addressing the problems of the poor solely through informal networks and target network interventions carefully to achieve maximum effectiveness
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Newspaper Coverage of People with Disabilities in Canada and Israel: An international comparison
In this research study we compared how three Canadian and three Israeli newspapers wrote about people with disabilities over a 3-month period. The comparison included structural variables, such as the length of the articles, where they appeared, whether photographs were used, etc. We also examined content variables, such as who the main character was, the details used to describe this individual or group, and what governmental agencies, service p…
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Attitudes of Family and Professional Care-Givers towards the Use of GPS for Tracking Patients with Dementia: An Exploratory Study
This study examined the attitudes of family and professional care-givers towards the use of advanced electronic tracking such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for elderly people with dementia. The study revealed four principal findings. First, care-givers' views ranged from feeling obligated to use the tracking device for the sake of patients' safety through support of the use of the device for the sak…
Help seeking and barriers to utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union
The study aimed to examine utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing recent and long-term immigrants, to identify barriers to service utilisation, and to examine factors related to utilisation. Participants (n = 402) recruited from a random community sample of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, aged 55 and over, residing in urban areas throughout the country were interviewed by telephone. Using an expande…
The Parameters of Network Intervention: A Social Work Application
Parallel to the recent expansion of knowledge about social networks and their implications for physical and emotional well-being, there has been a move by social policymakers and social work practitioners to engage actively in network interventions. These interventions are employed, for the most part, independently of theoretical developments in this area. This article builds on a review of network theories to present an analytical paradigm. By p…
Families' and Professional Caregivers' Views of Using Advanced Technology to Track People With Dementia
in this study we examined the ethical aspects of the use of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track people with dementia. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups of family and professional caregivers. The most important theme was the need to balance patients' need for safety with the need to preserve their autonomy and privacy. The main potential benefit of the use of GPS was related to the peace of mind of the…
Social Work Discharge Planning in Acute Care Hospitals in Israel: Clients’ Evaluation of the Discharge Planning Process and Adequacy
Objective: To examine the associations of patients’ characteristics, hospitalization factors, and the patients’ or family assessment of the discharge planning process, with their evaluation of adequacy of the discharge plan. Method: A prospective study. Social workers from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel provided data on 1426 discharged patients. At 2-week postdischarge, 407 patients and 659 family members evaluated the discharge planning proce…
Between Social Networks and Formal Social Services
This article reports a study of the social networks of recent applicants to the social welfare bureaux of Jerusalem. Beyond review of the relevant study variables as reflected in the literature, and an overview of Israeli social services for the aged, the article addresses why the social networks of the elderly claimants turned to formal assistance. The study revealed that networks were most likely to be the source of referral to social services …
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
The supportive community: Help seeking and service use among elderly people in Jerusalem
New and innovative services are needed to meet the needs of the growing elderly population of Israel. One such program is the “supportive community” program, which aims to provide a range of critical services to older people in the community. This study followed the response of 181 older residents of the northern quarter of Jerusalem to an invitation to subscribe to this new program and the extent of service utilization among those who joined. An…
The Administrative and Posthospital Care Outcomes of Discharge Planning: Preliminary Results of an Experimental Intervention
Early and comprehensive discharge planning is a widely accepted and anticipated social work role. It is generally supposed that discharge planning has positive implications for both the hospital and the patient. A research project was designed to assess the effects of a staff development program aimed at instituting a comprehensive discharge planning model by social workers in a general hospital in Israel. One group of patients received social wo…
The Parameters of Network Intervention: A Social Work Application
Parallel to the recent expansion of knowledge about social networks and their implications for physical and emotional well-being, there has been a move by social policymakers and social work practitioners to engage actively in network interventions. These interventions are employed, for the most part, independently of theoretical developments in this area. This article builds on a review of network theories to present an analytical paradigm. By p…
Sociability and Patterns of Participation: Implications for Social Service Policy
In policy circles, a response to meeting human needs through social networks and voluntary organizations is increasingly viewed as a substitute for publicly provided services. While prior research suggests that participation in these two types of voluntary activity may be related, the relationship is little understood. A secondary analysis of national survey data was carried out using bivariate and multivariate techniques to ascertain the relatio…
Between Social Networks and Formal Social Services
This article reports a study of the social networks of recent applicants to the social welfare bureaux of Jerusalem. Beyond review of the relevant study variables as reflected in the literature, and an overview of Israeli social services for the aged, the article addresses why the social networks of the elderly claimants turned to formal assistance. The study revealed that networks were most likely to be the source of referral to social services …
Social Networks and the Poor: Toward Effective Policy and Practice
A social network approach to social welfare is gaining in popularity. A study of a large random sample of adults, however, revealed significantly fewer network resources among the poor than among higher income groups. Therefore, the authors assert that social workers must avoid addressing the problems of the poor solely through informal networks and target network interventions carefully to achieve maximum effectiveness
Social Networks, Social Support, and Self-Ratings of Health among the Elderly
Social networks and the support they may provide have been shown to be important determinants of the health of the elderly. This study compares structural and support aspects of those networks in their relationship with self-latings of health among 200 elderly residents of the city of Jerusalem. Perceived social support was found to be a more important predictor of health than were measures of network structure. Further, the relation between supp…
Correlates of Social Worker Contact with Clients' Family Networks
The study examined the degree of social worker contact with the family networks of a sample of new elderly applicants (N = 122) to the social welfare services of Jerusalem. Greater contact was correlated with frail status of the client and a request for institutional care. A curvilinear relationship was found with network accessibility. These correlations disappeared, however, when degree of family initiated contact with the social worker was con…
The Administrative and Posthospital Care Outcomes of Discharge Planning: Preliminary Results of an Experimental Intervention
Early and comprehensive discharge planning is a widely accepted and anticipated social work role. It is generally supposed that discharge planning has positive implications for both the hospital and the patient. A research project was designed to assess the effects of a staff development program aimed at instituting a comprehensive discharge planning model by social workers in a general hospital in Israel. One group of patients received social wo…
Factors Related to Congruence Between Social Worker and Client Problem Definitions in an Acute Care Hospital
Problem definition in social work may be the source of disagreement between social workers and their clients. It can be affected by both client and worker characteristics, as well as the care-giving context. This paper examines the definitions of psycho-social problems by social workers and their clients in a general hospital. It is based on the analysis of interviews with 120 patients and their social workers, which were conducted towards the co…
Newspaper Coverage of People with Disabilities in Canada and Israel: An international comparison
In this research study we compared how three Canadian and three Israeli newspapers wrote about people with disabilities over a 3-month period. The comparison included structural variables, such as the length of the articles, where they appeared, whether photographs were used, etc. We also examined content variables, such as who the main character was, the details used to describe this individual or group, and what governmental agencies, service p…
Disability terminology in the media: A comparison of newspaper reports in Canada and Israel
The supportive community: Help seeking and service use among elderly people in Jerusalem
New and innovative services are needed to meet the needs of the growing elderly population of Israel. One such program is the “supportive community” program, which aims to provide a range of critical services to older people in the community. This study followed the response of 181 older residents of the northern quarter of Jerusalem to an invitation to subscribe to this new program and the extent of service utilization among those who joined. An…
Help seeking and barriers to utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union
The study aimed to examine utilisation of medical and health social work services among ageing recent and long-term immigrants, to identify barriers to service utilisation, and to examine factors related to utilisation. Participants (n = 402) recruited from a random community sample of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel, aged 55 and over, residing in urban areas throughout the country were interviewed by telephone. Using an expande…
Social Work Discharge Planning in Acute Care Hospitals in Israel: Clients’ Evaluation of the Discharge Planning Process and Adequacy
Objective: To examine the associations of patients’ characteristics, hospitalization factors, and the patients’ or family assessment of the discharge planning process, with their evaluation of adequacy of the discharge plan. Method: A prospective study. Social workers from 11 acute care hospitals in Israel provided data on 1426 discharged patients. At 2-week postdischarge, 407 patients and 659 family members evaluated the discharge planning proce…
Attitudes of Family and Professional Care-Givers towards the Use of GPS for Tracking Patients with Dementia: An Exploratory Study
This study examined the attitudes of family and professional care-givers towards the use of advanced electronic tracking such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for elderly people with dementia. The study revealed four principal findings. First, care-givers' views ranged from feeling obligated to use the tracking device for the sake of patients' safety through support of the use of the device for the sak…
Special Issue: Research on Social Work Practice in Israel
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the recognition of social work as an academic discipline in Israel. The country’s first academic school of social work was established at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1958 in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Ministry of Welfare. As part of Israel’s first university, that prides itself on its research accomplishments, faculty members were among the first soci…
What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era
Families' and Professional Caregivers' Views of Using Advanced Technology to Track People With Dementia
in this study we examined the ethical aspects of the use of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track people with dementia. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups of family and professional caregivers. The most important theme was the need to balance patients' need for safety with the need to preserve their autonomy and privacy. The main potential benefit of the use of GPS was related to the peace of mind of the…
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Clinical data-mining: Learning from practice in international settings
This article describes a practice-based, mixed-method research methodology – Clinical Data-Mining (CDM) – as a strategy for engaging international practitioners for describing, evaluating and reflecting upon endogenous forms of practice with the ultimate goal of improving practice and contributing to knowledge (Epstein, 2010). These knowledge contributions are perforce ‘local’, but through conceptual reflection and/or empirical replication they m…
Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies
Data Mining for Social Work Students: Teaching Practice-Based Research in Conjunction with a Field Work Placement
Although research studies are important for social work students, the students rarely like research classes or see their value. At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one group of BSW students was encouraged to carry out the required research in their field work setting, the Hadassah University Medical Center. Students used data mining, that is, the analysis of existing data, to answer their research questions. As a preliminary step, the instruct…
Medicine (17 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Social Work (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Engineering (6 works)