Many older people find it difficult to navigate the digital sphere and to use online services. The aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which user experience (UX) experts, who are entrusted with making websites and online services accessible, are aware of the unique needs of older users and whether they possess the appropriate resources and training. The research data were collected through 28 semi-structured in-depth interviews with UX practitioners, teachers, and researchers. The findings revealed two aspects of ageism: individual and organizational. At the individual level, ageism is expressed in a lack of awareness and understanding of the unique needs and difficulties of older users in the digital space. At the organizational level, ageism is manifested, among other things, in the lack of in-depth research among older users and the lack of appropriate training in characterizing older users. The result is digital ageism.

This study aims to examine the ways that old Palestinian Arabs in Israel experience and talk about ageing. Semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted among 25 Arab men and women, Muslims and Christians, aged 65 to 85 years. Using the concepts of “intergenerational contract” and “gender contract,” the study reveals a new discourse reflecting a complex relationship between the elders and their families, characterized by ambivalence and internal conflict. The findings indicate that the intergenerational contract has not disappeared and that family loyalty still exists, but the cracks are gradually widening. The gender contract, which remains stable in the perception of the elders, is changing as well, while the young women are struggling to comply with their part in the contract. The elders are therefore, aware of the possibility that the intergenerational contract will not be implemented in the traditional way and that there is no one to rely on.

A four-generation family imposes a burden of roles upon the grandparents, who are sandwiched between the ascendant generation of great-grandparents and the descendant generations of adult children and grandchildren. This study focused on working grandmothers, examines how they maneuver between the needs of their children, grandchildren and their task-load, the women did not perceive their situation negatively. Rather, they maneuver between the various roles and express a general contentment with their lives. The findings show that these women see their work as a private domain that provides protection from the duties related to caregiving. Applying the extended concept of “double sandwich”, the study describes the complex position of working women in four-tiered intergenerational structure.

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Work occupies a central place in identity formation. Consequently, retirement places retirees in a new reality that compels them to redefine themselves and adopt a new identity. The present article examines how retirees shape their identity in the absence of work. An interpretive analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with retirees in Israel shows that although retirement and old age are not necessarily equivalent or interconnected, the retirees themselves draw parallels between them, and at the same time also deny this linkage, preferring to draw a distinction between them. The findings reinforce the argument presented in the literature, namely that in contemporary society it is difficult to identify with old age. They also propose a new perspective that reveals the negotiation retirees conduct with old age, age and body, and how identity is shaped by way of denial. In this negotiation the retirees construct their identity around two central, parallel axes: retirement and old age. It further emerges that it is precisely the efforts to mask and repress old age, which are usually made in the body domain, that attest to the existence and presence of old age in their identity. Denial of old age creates a dynamic, hybrid identity that enables retirees to simultaneously accept and reject old age.