Gender, Health and Ageing

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-10

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2. Gender, Health, and Ageing: An Introduction

   1. Gender, Health, and Ageing: An Introduction

      • Vera Lasch, Katja Reimann, Gertrud M. Backes

      Pages 11-26

3. Gender Impacts on the Life Course and Old-age Health

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Gendered Life Course and Ageing — Implications on „Lebenslagen“ of Ageing Women and Men

      • Gertrud M. Backes, Ludwig Amrhein, Vera Lasch, Katja Reimann

      Pages 29-56

   3. Men in Later Life: Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Embodiment

      • Katja Reimann, Gertrud M. Backes

      Pages 57-70

   4. Mapping Existing Research and Identifying Knowledge Gaps Concerning the Situation of Older Women in Europe (MERI). From the Swedish National Report

      • Birgitta Lindencrona, Barbro Westerholm

      Pages 71-101

4. Issues of Health Research in the Context of Gender and Old-age

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. The Impact of Gender and Age on Cardiovascular Health in Germany

      • Friederike Kendel, Monika Sieverding

      Pages 105-124

   3. Health of Ageing Women in Hungary

      • Csilla T. Csoboth

      Pages 125-137

   4. Social Resources and Health Status in Older Polish Women

      • Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk

      Pages 139-156

   5. Double Vulnerability: Older Women and Health in Slovenia

      • Majda Pahor, Barbara Domajnko, Valentina Hlebec

      Pages 157-174

   6. Quality of Life and Health of Ageing Women in Hungary: Characteristics and Bio—psycho—social Background Factors

      • Mónika Erika Kovács

      Pages 175-202

   7. Elder Abuse, Older Women and Considerations of Mental Health

      • Bridget Penhale

      Pages 203-223

5. Challenges of Care — Gender and Health Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-255

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   2. Ageing and Demographic Change: European Research Resources

      • Vera Lasch, Katja Reimann

      Pages 227-240

   3. Care Resources and Social Exclusion: A European Comparison

      • Hildegard Theobald

      Pages 241-266

   4. Future Elderly Living Conditions In Europe: Demographic Insights

      • Gabriele Doblhammer, Uta Ziegler

      Pages 267-292

   5. Care for Old People Between Gender Relations, Gender Roles, and Gender Constructs

      • Gabriele Kreutzner

      Pages 293-316

6. Back Matter

   Pages 317-321

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Foreword Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello Certain books are eagerly anticipated and long overdue. „Gender, health, and ageing“ is such a book. Its topic is relevant in many different ways. The de- graphic and societal changes of the past decades, such as longevity and - provement of public health, have definitely created new and often very distinct realities for men and women. However, these diversities have only marginally and fragmentally been the topic of research endeavours. There is, for example, a general growing awareness for the societal phenomenon of „feminization of old age“, yet the topic and its psychosocial and health-related consequences haven’t attracted the scientific interest they would have deserved. It is noteworthy, that still until a few decades ago, the majority of geriatric and gerontological studies were oriented towards male standards without considering gender effects. Even though subsequent studies increasingly began to focus on differences between women and men, they referred mainly to the biological sex of a person and not to their gender belonging. Due to these scientific neglects and limitations, the state of the art in the field of gender, health and ageing is sketchy and often enough contradictory (Perrig-Chiello & Höpflinger, 2004).

• European Union (EU)
• Gender
• Lebenslagen
• care
• elderly people
• gender roles
• gerontology
• knowledge
• old age
• seniors
• social policy

Gertrud M. Backes, Professor for Ageing and Society at Vechta University, Centre for Research on Ageing and Society, Director.
Vera Lasch, Ph.D., Social Gerontology, at the Department of Social Studies, University of Kassel.
Katja Reimann, Diploma of Social Pedagogic, Social Gerontology, at the Department of Social Studies, University of Kassel.

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