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Older men
— their social worlds and healthy lifestyles | | Author(s) | Sara Arber, Kate Davidson, Tom Daly |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic & Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Journal title | GO Findings: 12 - Research Findings from the Growing Older Programme, January 2003 |
| Publisher | ESRC, Sheffield, January 2003 |
| Pages | 4 pp |
| Source | ESRC Growing Older Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gop/index.htm |
| Keywords | Older men ; Living alone ; Personal relationships ; Health [elderly] ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Over recent years, there have been substantial advances in social scientific understanding of the lives of older women, but older men have been largely neglected. This research has redressed the imbalance, by analysing how gender roles and relationships influence the quality of life of older men, focusing particularly on those living alone. Previously little was known about the quality of life, kin and friendship relationships of older divorced and never married men. The authors used qualitative interviews to examine how loss of a marital partner through widowhood or divorce may differently affect their social relationships and health-related behaviour. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030212216 A |
| Classmark | BC: K8: DS: CC: F: 3A:6KC |
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