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The Physical and mental health of aged women
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA778 .P54 1985 | Off-site |
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- 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