Associate Professor
PhD, 2005
Head of Program
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Public Health
Gerontology and the Study of Aging
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309
בנין משרדי רפואה ע"ש אליה |
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972-8-6477425 |
| Email : |
bachner@bgu.ac.il |
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- B.A. - 1988-1990, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat Gan, Israel (with distinction).
- M.A. - 1995-1997, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Sociology (Organizational), Ramat Gan, Israel. Name of advisors: Prof. M. Harrison and Dr. D. Rier Title of thesis: Burnout among therapists working with drug addicts: A comparison between two different organizational frameworks for therapy-an open versus a closed one.
- Ph.D.- 2000-2005, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology of Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Name of advisor: Prof. S. Carmel Title of dissertation: A model for explaining caregiving outcomes among informal caregivers of old cancer patients who died in two different settings of health services. 2004- Visiting scholar for the summer semester at the Gerontology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Research on caregiving and measurement, under the supervision of Prof. N. O'Rourke.
- Informal caregiving (cancer, Alzheimer, CVA, HIV/AIDS)
- Physician-patient relations (medical communication, medical education, satisfaction with
- and trust in physicians and health services)
- Methodology
Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants
- O'Rourke, N., Carmel, S., Chaudhury, H., Polchenko, N., & Bachner, Y.G. A Cross-National Comparison of Reminiscence Functions between Canadian and Israeli Older Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences (Accepted), 2012.
- Bachner, Y.G., Yosef-Sela, N., & Carmel, S. Open communication with terminal cancer
- patients about illness and death: A comparison between spouses of Ashkenazim and
- Sephardim ethnic origins. Cancer Nursing (Accepted), 2012.
- Norm O’Rourke (Simon Fraser University) – Reminiscence among Holocaust survivors
- Victoria Raveis (New-York University) – Physician’s communication with persons with HIV/AIDS
- Tova Band-Wintershtein (Haifa University) – Informal caregiving among ultra-Orthodox Jews
- Yossi Azouri (Maccabi Health Services) – Predictors of adherence among diabetic patients
- Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / focus topics:
- -Psycho-social aspects of health and illness
- -Formal and informal caregiving
Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / research focus topics
- Psycho-social aspects of health and illness
- Formal and informal caregiving