Professor Tova Band Winterstein, PhD
Dr. Tova Band Winterstein is a Professor at the Department of Gerontology, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel. She is Chair of the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging (MCIA) and the head of the PhD Committee at the Department of Gerontology. Her work combines knowledge generated from practice and theories aimed towards development of theory in gerontology, elder abuse, and intimate partner violence. She is an experienced qualitative researcher and addresses issues of health, family, and needs of older adults from a life course perspective. She has recently been doing qualitative research on marginalized older adults (e.g., families aging with disabilities, older person suicidality, older prisoners, and sexual assault in late life).
Research Interests:
- Elder abuse and neglect, including self-neglect and intimate partner violence along the life course
- Family members’ perspectives on intimate violence over the life course
- The experience of older abused women in the therapeutic encounter; sexual assault in late life
- Older parents’ experiences of their relationships with adult mentally ill abusive offspring
- Intersectionality in old age
- Cross-generational perspectives
Keywords:
Qualitative research; Elder abuse and neglect; Self-neglect; Intersectionality
SDG Keywords:
Vulnerable; Marginalized; Gender equality; Sexual violence; Disabilities; disability; Sexual abuse; Sexual violence
She can be contacted at: twinters@research.haifa.ac.il
