Longevity Science and Women's Health and Wellbeing.

IF 1.3 Q3 GERONTOLOGY
Colin Farrelly
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In most areas of the world women comprise the majority of older persons (especially at the most advanced ages), but the additional longevity (globally it is 4.8 years) women have often comes with poorer health status compared to age-matched men. This article draws attention to four distinct ways an applied gerontological intervention designed to increase the human healthspan via "rate (of ageing) control" could positively impact the health and wellbeing of women in today's ageing world. The four benefits examined are: (1) improving women's health in late life; (2) increasing reproductive longevity and improving maternal health, (3) reducing the financial vulnerability many women experience at advanced ages (especially in the developing world); and (4) reducing the caring burdens which typically fall, at least disproportionately, on daughters to care for their ageing parents. Highlighting these factors is important as is helps focus geroscience advocacy not only on the potential health dividend age retardation could confer on those in late life, but also the distributional effects on health throughout the lifespan (e.g. improving maternal health) and on helping to ameliorate other important inequalities (e.g. reducing the financial vulnerabilities of late life and easing the burdens on the care givers for ageing parents). By making vivid the benefits "rate (of ageing) control" could confer on women, especially in the developing world, the goal of retarding biological ageing can be rightly construed as a pressing public health priority for the 21st century.

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长寿科学与女性健康和福祉。
在世界大多数地区,妇女占老年人的大多数(尤其是高龄老年人),但与年龄匹配的男性相比,妇女的寿命(全球范围内为 4.8 年)往往较长,但健康状况却较差。本文通过四种不同的方式提请人们注意,一种旨在通过"(老化)速度控制 "来延长人类健康寿命的应用老年学干预措施,可以对当今老龄化世界中女性的健康和福祉产生积极影响。所研究的四种益处是(1) 改善妇女晚年的健康状况;(2) 延长生育寿命,改善产妇健康状况;(3) 减少许多妇女(尤其是发展中国家的妇女)在高龄时经济上的脆弱性;(4) 减轻通常由女儿承担的照顾年迈父母的负担,至少是不成比例的负担。强调这些因素非常重要,因为这不仅有助于将性别科学的宣传重点放在年龄迟缓可 能给晚年人带来的潜在健康红利上,而且还有助于宣传年龄迟缓对整个生命周期的健康所 产生的分配效应(如改善产妇健康),以及有助于改善其他重要的不平等现象(如减少晚 年人的经济脆弱性,减轻照顾年迈父母者的负担)。通过将 "控制(老龄化)速度 "可以给妇女,特别是发展中国家的妇女带来的好处生动化,可以正确地将延缓生物老龄化的目标理解为 21 世纪紧迫的公共卫生优先事项。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Population Ageing examines the broad questions arising from global population ageing. It provides a forum for international cross-disciplinary debate on population ageing, focusing on theoretical and empirical research and methodological innovation and development. This interdisciplinary journal publishes editorials, original peer reviewed articles, and subject and literature reviews. It offers high quality research of interest to those working in the fields of demography, bio-demography, development studies, area studies, sociology, geography, history, social gerontology, economics, and social and health policy.
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