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Body
Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause
Simon & Schuster, 2006, $15.00
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
A well researched book for any woman navigating the changes of menopause and midlife. It dispels myths, provides practical information and inspires women to become socially and politically involved to create a better future for women's health and health care.
Brown, Helen, Boomer Women’s Long-Term Care Planning: Barriers and Levers, September 2009
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.
Ho, Suzanne C., et al, "Impact of Caregiving on Health and Quality of Life: A Comparative Population-Based Study of Caregivers for Elderly Persons and Noncaregivers", Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, August 2009 (Vol. 64A, No. 8)
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.
Nakamura, Eitaro, and Miyao, Kenji , "Sex Differences in Human Biological Aging", Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 2008 (Vol. 63)
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.”
Nelson, Miriam E., Strong Women Stay Young
Bantam Books, 2005 (Revised edition), $7.50
Dr. Nelson, a professor of Nutrition Science and Health Policy at Tufts University and a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, shows how older women can retain youthfulness in two 4-minute sessions per week.
Strong Women: Your Virtual Trainer
http://strongwomen.com/
A website by Dr. Miriam Nelson promoting physical training for women. Offers information, programs, links, books, recipes, and other useful items.
Women and Health: Today's Evidence, Tomorrow's Agenda
World Health Organization, 2009, Free
http://www.who.int/gender/documents/9789241563857/en/index.html
The purpose of this report is to inform about and improve the health of women worldwide, both for their benefit and that of society at large.
Heart
Eagly, Alice H., "His and Hers of Prosocial Behavior, The: An Examination of the Social Psychology of Gender", American Psychologist, November 2009 (Vol. 64, No. 8)
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.
Rueckert, Linda, and Naybar, Nicolette, "Gender Differences in Empathy: The Role of the Right Hemisphere", Brain and Cognition, 2008
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.
Stevenson, Betsey, Women’s Education and Family Behavior: Trends in Marriage, Divorce and Fertility
Penn Population Aging Research Center, January 2010, Free
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=parc_working_papers
Stevenson finds that while patterns for men have not changed much, college educated women marry later, have fewer children, are less likely to view marriage as “financial security”, are happier in their marriages and with their family life, and are less likely to divorce than 30 years ago.
Soul
McCullough, Michael E. et al, "Does Devoutness Delay Death? Psychological Investment in Religion and its Association with Longevity in the Terman Sample", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, November 2009 (Vol. 97, No. 5)
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.
Sointu, Eeva, and Woodhead, Linda, "Spirituality, Gender, and Expressive Selfhood", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008 (Vol. 47, No.2)
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.”
Money
Siegel, Ellen R., President, Ellen R. Siegel & Associates, Inc.
Designations: CFP,ChFC, CLU
Active in: FL
7344 SW 48 Street, Suite 301, Miami, FL 33155
Telephone:305-665-2130
Fax:305-665-3504
ellen@siegelplanners.com
http://www.siegelplanners.com
We are advisors primarily. to baby boomer women who have come into a sum of money that needs to last them the rest of their life. We work with them to build the most appropriate portfolio, identify the most realistic spending plan, and identify the dreams they have for the second half of life.
Orth, Beverly J., Evaluation of Approaches to Reducing Women’s Longevity Risks
Society of Actuaries / Living to 100 and Beyond Symposium, 2008, Free
http://www.soa.org/library/monographs/retirement-systems/living-to-100-and-beyond/2008/january/mono-li08-3b-orth.pdf
Orth examines the potential of several product and public policy strategies that could reduce the exposure of elderly women to poverty.
Single Women in the U.S.A.: Retirement Dreams v. Financial Realities
Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, September 17, 2008, Free
http://www.transamericacenter.org/resources/TCRS%201007%200608%20Single%20Women%20in%20USA%20(TCRS%20v4).pdf
The 9th annual report in this series.
Voon Phua and James W. McNally, "Men Planning for Retirement", Applied Gerontology, 2008 (Vol. 27, No. 5)
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.
Women and Retirement: Facing Challenges in a Recession
Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, 2009, Free
http://www.transamericacenter.org/Resources/TCRS%202009%20WomenRetirement.pdf
Noting that the 2009 recession hurt women’s retirement outlook more than men’s, this report highlights areas of concern, but also reveals opportunities to help women and all workers get back on track with their retirement savings.
Structure
Wong, Jen D., and Hardy, Melissa A. , "Women's Retirement Expectations: How Stable Are They?", Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, January 2009 (Vol. 64, No. 1)
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.