Research Catalog

Title

The Physical and mental health of aged women / Marie R. Haug, Amasa B. Ford, Marian Sheafor, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haug, Marie R.
• Ford, Amasa B., 1922-2007.
• Sheafor, Marian.

Description

xvi, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Older women > Health and hygiene > United States
• Older women > Medical care > United States
• Older women > Mental health > United States
• Older women > Diseases > United States
• Older women > United States > Social conditions
• Aging
• Health
• Mental health
• Women
• Older people
• Aging
• Health
• Health Services for the Aged
• Health Status
• Mental Health
• Women
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• health
• mental health
• elderly
• women (female humans)
• Older people
• Mental health
• Older women > Diseases
• Older women > Health and hygiene
• Gesundheit
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Medizinische Versorgung
• Alter
• Frau
• Bejaardenzorg
• Vrouwen
• Gezondheid
• United States
• USA

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 265-294.

Contents

I. Introduction -- The changing older woman : a cohort perspective / Matilda White Riley -- Toward a female gerontocracy? Current social trends / Anne R. Somers -- The natural superiority of women / Irven DeVore, and C. Owen Lovejoy -- II. Physical health issues -- An epidemiological profile of older women / Lois M. Verbrugge -- The aging skeleton / Robert Lindsay -- The endocrine and reproductive system of aged women / Robert B. Greenblatt, P.K. Natrajan, and Anthony Karpas -- III. Mental health issues -- Living with depression / Charles E. Holzer III, Philip J. Leaf, and Myrna M. Weissman -- Developmental perspectives on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness in the older woman / David L. Gutmann -- The aging woman and confusion / Mary Opal Wolanin -- IV. Social issues -- Older women in intergenerational relations / Gunhild O. Hagestad -- Adjustment to family losses : grief in frail elderly women / Irene Burnside -- Poverty and minority status / Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson -- V. Introduction to treatment issues -- Nutrition as prevention and treatment in the elderly / Carol O. Mitchell -- Surgery and aged women : indications and contraindications / Claude E. Welch -- The uses and misuses of pharmacology / Charles L. Hoppel -- VI. Health care issues -- Institutionalization of the aged woman : bane or blessing? / Eva Kahana, and Boaz Kahana -- Prospects for rehabilitation of the aged woman / Carlos Vallbona, and Susan Beggs Baker -- The aged woman and the future of health care delivery / Faye G. Abdellah -- Epilogue : Prospects for treatment and research / Marie R. Haug, Amasa B. Ford, and Marian Sheafor.

ISBN

• 0826143407
• 9780826143402

LCCN

84026870

OCLC

• ocm11599296
• 11599296
• SCSB-1155083

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library