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Does the context of spousal loss affect the physical functioning of older widowed persons?
— a longitudinal analysis | | Author(s) | Min-Ah Lee, Deborah Carr |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 29, no 5, September 2007 |
| Pages | pp 457-487 |
| Keywords | Widows ; Widowers ; Bereavement ; Self care capacity ; Physical disabilities ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The extent to which acute and chronic stressors related to spousal loss affect bereaved spouses' physical functioning is examined, and how these patterns differ for men and women. The authors use data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples (CLOC) study in Detroit, which tracks older people prior to the death of a husband or wife and 6, 18 and 48 months after. The results reveal that widowed people whose spouses had serious ongoing health problems before the death report more severe perceived limitation in performing daily activities 18 and 48 months after loss. A further finding is that widowed people who were not with their spouses when they died have greater functional limitation 18 and 48 months after loss. However, gender interaction term analyses reveal that the health effects of spousal death context hold for widowers only. These findings suggest that the ways older people die may have long-term physical health consequences for their surviving spouses, and these ramifications differ for widows and widowers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080121205 A |
| Classmark | SP: SPA: DW: CA: BN: 3J: 7T |
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