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"Is anybody listening?"
— the experiences of widowhood for older Australian women | | Author(s) | Susan Feldman, Julie E Byles, Rosie Beaumont |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 12, nos 3/4, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 155-176 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Widows ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Attitude ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Preliminary findings from widowed participants in the baseline survey of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (Women's Health Australia: WHA) are discussed. A total of 12,624 women aged 70-75 completed a self-administered 260-item questionnaire; 4335 of these women were widowed. Many of them provided additional qualitative comments about their health, social and financial circumstances after the death of their spouse. This paper presents a thematic analysis of the qualitative comments, and builds on the findings of the quantitative analysis of baseline data. The aims of this part of the study are to examine the short- and long-term effects of widowhood on the health and well-being of older women, and to explore the process of change they experience after the death of a spouse. Preliminary findings suggest that, as a key life event, widowhood has an initial negative impact on the health and well-being of older women, but in the long term it may be accompanied by a positive shift into a new life phase. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010222209 A |
| Classmark | SP: CC: D:F:5HH: DP: 3J: 7YA |
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