Ourselves, growing older : women aging with knowledge and power / Paula Brown Doress and Diana Laskin Siegal and the Midlife and Older Women Book Project ; in cooperation with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective ; illustrations by Roselaine Perkis.
Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987.Description: xxvi, 511 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:- 0671505017
- 0671644246 (pbk.)
- WA 309 D6950 1987
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book Open Access | Health Sciences Library | WA 309 D6950 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | MBAL22011127 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Content
Aging Well
1. Aging and Well-being
2. Habits worth changing
3. Who needs cosmetic surgery? Reassessing our Looks and our lives
4. Weighty issues
5. Eating well
6. Moving for health
Living with ourselves and others as we age
7. Sexuality in the second half of life
8. Birth control for women in midlife
9. Childbearing in midlife
10. Menopause : Entering our third age
11. Relationships in middles and later age
12. Housing Alternatives and Living Arrangements
13. Work and retirement
14. Money Matters: The economics of aging for women
15. Caregiving
Understanding, preventing and managing medical health
16. Problems in the medical care system
17. Nursing homes
18. Joint and muscle pain, arthritis and rheumatic disorders
19. Osteoporosis
20. Dental health
21. Urinary incontinence
22. Hysterectomy and oophorectomy
23. Hypertension, heart disease, and stroke
24. Cancer
25. Diabetes
26. Gallstones and gallbladder disease
27. Vision, hearing, and other sensory loss associated with aging
28. Memory lapse and memory loss
29. Dying and death
30. Changing society and ourselves.
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