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| http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/health/boomer_women_ltc.pdf, Free
Brown reports that most Baby Boom women do not have any kind of long-term care plan, although those who have themselves been care-givers are twice as likely to have such a plan. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64A/8/873
Based on studies performed in Hong Kong, the authors found that high caregiving burdens are correlated with adverse physical and psychological health and with poor quality of life, especially in women caregivers. |
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| http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/63/9/936
Nakamura and Miyao report that aging women had relatively lower functional capabilities compared with men, but the rate of aging was slower than that of men, suggesting that these differences might present both disadvantages and advantages for women with regard to health and longevity.” |
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| http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/52/2/212.abstract
Springer and Mouzon report that men with strong masculinity beliefs are only half as likely as men with more moderate masculinity beliefs to receive preventive care. They think this may be a partial explanation for the paradox of men’s lower life expectancy, despite higher socio-economic status. |
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| http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sth/journal/v9/n1/abs/sth20106a.html
Yiu Tung Suen questions the “misery perspective” generally used to understand gender, ageing and health, where elderly women are considered to be more ill than elderly man. His study finds some truth to it for those born between 1880 and 1920, but not later. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/8/847.full
The authors find that, while the WHO recommendation for Body Mass Index in older women is appropriate for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and hospitalization, a slightly higher BMI range may be optimal for osteoporosis and mortality. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65B/5/609.abstract
The authors report that while retirement may come more as a relief than as a stressor for individuals previously experiencing high levels of work demands interfering with family life, retirement may not relieve the burdens of family life stressors, particularly among women. |
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| http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net/2010/03/husband-abuse-mentally-physically-and-emotionally-abused-men.html, Free
Burress offers basic information on this little-discussed topic. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/8/644/
Eagly finds that women and men are about equally interested in “pro-social” behaviors that benefit the community, but they do it in different ways: women in ways that are more communal and relational, and men in ways that are more agentic and collectively oriented as well as strength intensive. |
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| http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278262611000662
The authors of this Mexican study found that experiences invoking compassion light up different areas of the brain in women and men, suggesting that such emotions emerge from differently evolved neural mechanisms and socially learned features, possibly related to nurturing skills. |
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| The authors find a not-surprising difference between men and women when tested for empathy, but they also believe they have found a clue that this difference is at least partly due to neural causes. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/97/5/866/
The authors found that women (but not men) with the lowest degrees of religiousness through adulthood had shorter lives than did women who were more religious - largely attributable to differences in personality traits, social ties, health behaviors, and mental and physical health. |
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| http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120083089/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Sointu and Woodhead argue that “holistic spiritualities align with traditional spheres and representations of femininity, while simultaneously supporting and encouraging a move away from selfless to expressive selfhood,” accounting for the greater involvement of women in “holistic spirituality.” |
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| Blayney emphasizes that women do tend to have different planning needs and different financial styles, compared to men, and she discusses the ways in which advisers can be most helpful to women, and to build trust. |
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| http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-s-levine/friendship-and-money-mini_b_171266.html, Free
A brief but helpful article discussing a few problematic issues that commonly arise between friends, especially women. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/2/249.abstract
The authors report that experience of involuntary job loss and exposure to bad jobs are associated with a lower risk of retiring before age 65, whereas labor union membership is associated with a higher likelihood of early retirement – though more so for men than for women. |
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| http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/5/588
Phua and McNally report that as men age they make less distinction between financial planning and pre-retirement planning. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/64B/1/77
The authors have measured women’s expectations about retirement over a seven-year period and found significant fluctuations in individuals over that time, suggesting that capturing people’s feelings at multiple time points prior to retirement may provide a truer picture. |