Older Women and Health
作者:
LewisMyrna,
期刊:
Women&Health
(Taylor Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 2-3
页码: 1-16
ISSN:0363-0242
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1300/J013v10n02_01
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Older women's health issues are unique. There are more older women than ever before. They are living increasingly longer than men, yet they report more acute and chronic illness and disability than men. They are disproportionally represented in nursing homes, since many women are alone: twenty-five percent aged 70 or over have no living children and over 60 percent of older women are widowed, divorced, or single. Older women have fewer personal financial resources for health care than men. Health care reimbursement does not meet their needs for financial coverage of chronic outpatient and nursing home care. They face age and sex discrimination on the part of many health care providers and are subject to a growing tendency to be seen as "burdens" and "problems" in the American health care system.
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