Articles

Home Care Services in Israel: Personal Assistance, Choice and Sustainable Support at Home
Home care is one of the foundations of Israel’s long-term care system, enabling hundreds of thousands of older people to receive assistance while remaining in their own homes. This article examines how National Insurance-funded personal care, service choice, family caregiving, nursing companies and foreign caregivers operate in practice, and why sustainable home care increasingly depends on workforce capacity, continuity, reassessment, quality assurance and support that preserves independence rather than simply completing tasks. Read more...
Who Is Responsible for Older People's Care in Israel? Governance Across Health, Welfare and Social Insurance
Responsibility for older people's care in Israel is distributed across national ministries, the National Insurance Institute, health plans, local authorities, providers, families and community organizations. This article maps those responsibilities, explains where authority changes between healthcare, long-term care and welfare, and examines why stronger governance depends less on creating one institution and more on making accountability, information and escalation work across organizational boundaries. Read more...
Healthy Aging in Israel: Prevention, Public Health and Longer Independent Lives
Israel’s longer-living population makes prevention increasingly important to the sustainability of health and long-term care. Healthy aging extends beyond disease prevention to physical function, nutrition, cognition, social connection, mental wellbeing and age-friendly communities. This article examines how Israel can connect public health, community healthcare, local services and earlier intervention so that additional years of life are accompanied by greater independence and participation wherever possible. Read more...
Aging in Place in Israel: Supporting Independence at Home and in the Community
Israel’s long-term care system has a strong community orientation, but aging in place depends on far more than keeping people out of institutions. This article examines how home care, health services, family support, housing, local welfare, rehabilitation, technology and workforce capacity combine to sustain independence, and where operational gaps can turn a home-based preference into an unsafe or unsustainable arrangement. Read more...
How Long-Term Care Works in Israel: National Insurance, Healthcare, Welfare and Family Support
Israel’s long-term care system is not administered through a single program or institution. Support is distributed across National Insurance, the healthcare system, welfare services, municipalities, families, private providers and residential-care arrangements. This article explains how those responsibilities fit together, how eligibility and funding differ between home and institutional care, and why coordination across organizational boundaries is increasingly important as more Israelis require sustained support in later life. Read more...
Israel's Aging Population: Preparing for a Longer-Living Society
Israel remains relatively young compared with many advanced economies, yet the number of older people is rising substantially and the oldest age groups are expanding fastest. This article examines what that demographic transition means for long-term care, healthcare, families, workforce capacity, prevention, community infrastructure and governance — and why preparing for aging requires more than simply expanding existing services. Read more...