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Overview

Perla Werner is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Health Professions, with significant contributions to subfields such as General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their main research topics encompass Mental Health Treatment and Access, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Family Caregiving in Mental Illness, and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Perla Werner include:

  • Hanan AboJabel
  • Shiri Shinan-Altman
  • Ile Kermel Schiffman
  • Natalie Ulitsa

Publications featuring their work often appear in journals such as:

  • Aging & Mental Health
  • Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Representative publications by Perla Werner include:

  • "A Cross-National Study of Dementia Stigma Among the General Public in Israel and Australia" (2021), Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • "Examining Dementia Family Caregivers' Forgone Care for General Practitioners and Medical Specialists during a COVID-19 Lockdown" (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The influence of the age of dementia onset on college students' stigmatic attributions towards a person with dementia" (2020), BMC Geriatrics

Other notable papers include works where Perla Werner is a coauthor or closely related collaborator, such as:

  • "Dementia stigma reduction (DESeRvE) through education and virtual contact in the general public: A multi-arm factorial randomised controlled trial" (2021), Dementia
  • "Willingness of family caregivers of people with dementia to undertake Advance Care Planning: Examining an extended model of the Theory of Planned Behavior" (2020), Dementia

Best Publications

  • The cost of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in community dwelling Alzheimer's disease patients

    Michal Schnaider Beeri;Perla Werner;Michael Davidson;Shlomo Noy

  • Self-stigma, self-esteem and age in persons with schizophrenia.

    Perla Werner;Alex Aviv;Yoram Barak

  • Family Stigma and Caregiver Burden in Alzheimer's Disease

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  • Handwriting Process Variables Discriminating Mild Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Perla Werner;Sara Rosenblum;Gady Bar-On;Jeremia Heinik

  • Anxiety disorder and accompanying subjective memory loss in the elderly as a predictor of future cognitive decline

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  • Knowledge about symptoms of Alzheimer's disease: correlates and relationship to help‐seeking behavior

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  • Use of the virtual action planning supermarket for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment: a preliminary study.

    Perla Werner;Sarit Rabinowitz;Evelyne Klinger;Amos D. Korczyn

  • Observational data on time use and behavior problems in the nursing home.

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Marcia S. Marx;Perla Werner

  • The impact of a restraint-reduction program on nursing home residents.

    Perla Werner;Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Vivian Koroknay;Judith Braun

  • Subjective Experience of Family Stigma as Reported by Children of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

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  • Predictors of mortality in nursing home residents.

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Marcia S. Marx;Steven Lipson;Perla Werner

  • Two studies of pacing in the nursing home.

    Jiska Cohen-mansfield;Perla Werner;Marcia S. Marx;Laurence Freedman

  • Current knowledge and future directions about the disclosure of dementia: a systematic review of the first decade of the 21st century.

    Perla Werner;Orit Karnieli-Miller;Shmuel Eidelman

  • Medical students' attitudes towards overweight and obesity.

    Birte Pantenburg;Claudia Sikorski;Melanie Luppa;Georg Schomerus

  • Emotional reactions of lay persons to someone with Alzheimer's disease.

    Perla Werner;Michael Davidson

  • Mild cognitive impairment: conceptual, assessment, ethical, and social issues.

    Perla Werner;Amos D Korczyn

  • Evaluation of an inservice training program on dementia and wandering

    J Cohen-Mansfield;P Werner;W J Culpepper nd;D Barkley

  • Are you talking to me?! An exploration of the triadic physician–patient–companion communication within memory clinics encounters

    Orit Karnieli-Miller;Perla Werner;Galit Neufeld-Kroszynski;Shmuel Eidelman

  • Nursing staff members' intentions to use physical restraints with older people: testing the theory of reasoned action.

    Perla Werner;Gady Mendelsson

  • Individualized Care Alternatives Used in the Process of Removing Physical Restraints in the Nursing Home

    Perla Werner;Vivian Koroknay;Judith Braun;Jiska Cohen-Mansfield

  • Temporal Patterns of Agitated Nursing Home Residents

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Marcia S. Marx;Perla Werner;Laurence Freedman

  • Correlates of family caregivers' knowledge about Alzheimer's disease.

    Perla Werner

  • Validation of the modified telephone interview for cognitive status (TICS-m) in Hebrew.

    Michal Schnaider Beeri;Perla Werner;Michael Davidson;James Schmidler

  • Dilemmas in the (un)veiling of the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: walking an ethical and professional tight rope.

    Orit Karnieli-Miller;Perla Werner;Judith Aharon-Peretz;Shmuel Eidelman

Frequent Co-Authors

Sara Rosenblum
Sara Rosenblum University of Haifa
Sara Carmel
Sara Carmel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
Gina M. Geffen
Gina M. Geffen University of Queensland
Patrick W. Corrigan
Patrick W. Corrigan Illinois Institute of Technology
Tobias Luck
Tobias Luck Leipzig University
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Abby C. King
Abby C. King Stanford University
Yoram Barak
Yoram Barak University of Otago

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