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