P rofessor Ariela Lowenstein, professor of gerontology and Head, Center for Research and Study of Aging, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel, European Regional Representative to INPEA and co-chair of the next World Elder Abuse Awareness Day which will be held July 5, 2009 in Paris on the first opening day of the International Congress of the International Ass. of Gerontology and Geriartics. Professor Lowenstein publishes extensively, having close to 200 publications. She has written two books in Hebrew, and is co-editor of three books in English. She is the recipient of numerous competitive research grants, prestigious scholarships and awards, and served as the Research Coordinator of a large scale EU project (OASIS). Currently she is the Israeli PI of a large US-Israel study, on family relations and social support in Israel and the US. She conducted with colleagues the First National Prevalence Study on Elder Abuse in the community and a qualitative study on 50 families suffering from abuse and neglect. Her student, Dr. Merave Ben Natan, had just recently received approval for her dissertation, which was a study on Elder Abuse in Residential Settings in Israel.
Lowenstein is reputed as one of the leading national and international experts in aging. She is the past chair of the European Behavioral, Social Science and Research Section of the IAAG – European Region, and served for five years as chair of the Israeli Gerontological Society, where she received a prize for life achievement. She is an Honorary Fellow of GSA and a fellow of the World Demographic Association. She is a board member of the International Federation on Aging (IFA), and a board member and co-chair of an Elder Abuse team within NICE – National Initiative for Care of the Elderly, University of Toronto, Canada.
She serves on Israeli governmental and local agencies as consultant, and an advisor for policy, acting as Chair of an Advisory Council to the Minister and Ministry of Senior Citizens.
She has a Masters of Public Administration from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Her research areas: intergenerational family relations, elder abuse, elders’ quality of life, policy development, theory building, grandparenthood, family caregiving, gerontological education.
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