The challenges of the body in old age

"The Elderly as a Subject" Forum at the Nafarashim Institute for Psychotherapy Research and Teaching

At the School of Behavioral Sciences, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College

Happy to invite you.

For a seminar to be held at the Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College on the topic:

The challenges of the body in old age

Dr. Nitza Yarom, Prof. Gili Goldzweig, Ms. Renee Sheinfeld, Dr. Liora Bartor,

Prof. Yuval Haled, Dr. Ayla Bloch, Dr. Shirley Alon, Dr. Sharon Ziv Beiman

On Friday, December 30, 2022 between the hours of: 9:00-13:30 at 10 Hever HaLeumim Street, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College

Cost: 130 NIS for professionals, 90 NIS for students, interns and retirees

The split between body and mind is an ongoing challenge that contemporary psychology faces. This challenge is intensified when it comes to aging and the old body. Western culture and Western psychology in general, glorifying youth and beauty, tend to exclude the old body from the discourse on aging, with its character, beauty, weariness, and physical resources.

In the two meetings we will hold this year as part of our series "The Elderly as Subject" and which will deal with the challenges of the body in old age, we would like to invite to the center stage a meeting with a variety of aspects of the body in old age. The first meeting will deal with the theory of the body in old age, movement in old age, the flexible brain and clinical applications of these issues. The second meeting will focus on the clinic of the body in old age and within the framework of which we will invite professionals from various therapeutic fields to present the meanings and ways of working with the body in old age.

The first meeting will open with a lecture by clinical psychologist Dr. Nitza Yarom on the new psychology of the body in old age.

The second part of the meeting will invite the renowned dancer and choreographer Renee Sheinfeld to the stage, who will present her works as an 83-year-old dancer and will speak with Dr. Daniela Eisenberg, one of the leaders in the psychology and psychotherapy of the elderly in Israel.

From there we will continue to the lecture by physiologist Professor Yuval Haled, who will talk about movement in old age as a basic, essential and primary need and about "movement as a source of life in old age."

We will conclude with a discussion by rehabilitation psychologist and chairwoman of the Council of Psychologists Dr. Ayla Bloch and medical psychologist and chief psychologist of Meir Hospital Dr. Shirley Alon on therapeutic aspects of the body in old age.

Today's program:

Today's moderator: Prof. Gili Goldzweig

9:00-9:15- Greetings

9:45 -9:15 - A new theory of the body in old age. Dr. Nitza Yarom

9:45-10:00- Break

10:00-11:00 - Movement in old age, there is no old man - there is a person - Ms. Renee Sheinfeld and Dr. Daniela Eisenberg

11:00-11:30 – Light lunch break

11:30-12:10 - The Flexible Brain and Movement in Old Age - Professor Yuval Haled

12:10-12:50 - The therapeutic applications of physical fitness in old age - Dr. Ayla Bloch and Dr. Shirley Alon

12:50-13:30 – Discussion with the lecturers and the audience, moderated by Prof. Gili Goldzweig, Dr. Sharon Ziv Beiman