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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.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987.Description: xxvi, 511 p. : ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0671505017
  • 0671644246 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • WA 309 D6950 1987
Contents:
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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Book Open Access 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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