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{"title":"Gender and family structures affecting intergenerational support from adult children to older parents: A cross-national study in a developing country.","authors":"M Soledad Herrera,&nbsp;M Beatriz Fernández","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2022.2044709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2022.2044709","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Latin America, informal support from adult children to their older parents (\"upward support\") is crucial with an aging population and insufficient coverage of social protection systems. This article examines variables associated with upward support, distinguishing by gender of parents and their children. The research design is quantitative, correlational, and cross-sectional. It is based on primary survey data collected by the authors for the study. The authors hypothesized that upward support depends on children's opportunities to provide support and on the needs of parents. The results show that upward support depends more on children's opportunities than on parents' needs, although upward support is higher for parents with poorer health. Daughters are more supportive than sons, but sibling characteristics do not moderate associations between children's gender and receipt of support. Cohabiting with the parent, receiving support from the parent, and having a good relationship were also associated with greater upward support. Therefore, policies should consider the gender of adult children when allocating resources to older people.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 3","pages":"280-298"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9659722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender disparities in health and well-being among older adults in China.","authors":"Lanlan Chu","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2022.2046988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2022.2046988","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on data from the 2008-2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, this study uses multiple regression models to investigate the gender disparities in health and well-being among older adults in China. Women are found to have severe disadvantages in health, reflected in more chronic diseases, higher disability levels, lower physical and cognitive functions than men. Although older Chinese females are more likely to have good life satisfaction than their male counterparts, they are experiencing significantly higher negative affect than males. These results are further verified robust, providing practical policy implications of improving gender equalities in older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 3","pages":"299-317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9659725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender differences in the association between perceived income sufficiency and self-rated health among older adults: A population-based study in India.","authors":"T Muhammad,&nbsp;Priya Maurya","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2021.2002663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.2002663","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores whether gender differences in self-rated health can be attributed to socioeconomic status and self-perceived income sufficiency in particular. We used data from the Building a Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India (BKPAI-2011) and carried out the descriptive and bivariate analysis along with a chi-square test to explore the significance of possible associations between explanatory and outcome variables in the study. Also, sex-stratified multiple logistic regression models were employed to fulfill the study objectives. The results show that a higher percentage of older women (58.4%) reported their health as fair/poor than older men (52%). Older women reported poor self-rated health than older men with similar self-perceived income sufficiency (OR: 2.04; <i>p</i> < .001 vs. OR: 1.56; <i>p</i> < .010). All the health indicators such as suffering from higher number of chronic conditions (AOR: 3.70; <i>p</i> < .001 vs. AOR: 2.73; <i>p</i> < .001) and disability (AOR: 3.79; <i>p</i> < .001 vs. AOR: 3.33; <i>p</i> < .001) increased odds of rating of poor health among older women than men, except having two plus difficulty in activities of daily living (ADL), which was positively associated with reporting poor health among men than women (OR: 4.03; <i>p</i> < .001 vs. OR: 2.36; <i>p</i> < .001). The study highlights the gender differences in self-rating of health associated with subjective income status and other socioeconomic and health-related variables that are important while framing social policies for the Indian graying population.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"168-182"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10684997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Positive body perception and its link to sexual satisfaction in aging women - findings from the Women 40+ Healthy Aging Study.","authors":"Laura Mernone,&nbsp;Serena Fiacco,&nbsp;Ulrike Ehlert","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2021.2002647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.2002647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on the relation between physical appearance and sexual satisfaction in aging women is scarce. This study uniquely links attractiveness, body perception, and sexual satisfaction in 124 healthy aging women. Two-thirds reported being highly sexually satisfied. BMI and fat mass correlated significantly with sexual satisfaction. Weight and shape concerns moderated this relationship, affecting sexual satisfaction beyond the effect of body size and composition. Given the \"unattractive stereotype\" of older women related to the enduring social beauty ideal of a youthful and thin body, positive body perceptions in light of age-associated bodily changes should be promoted.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"152-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10670548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differentials in private and public healthcare service utilization in later life: do gender and marital status have any association?","authors":"Babul Hossain,&nbsp;K S James,&nbsp;Varsha P Nagargoje,&nbsp;Papai Barman","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2021.2011562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.2011562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigates whether the differentials in private and public inpatient healthcare utilization are associated with marital status for men and women aged 60 years and above in India. Binary logistic regression was applied to examine the association of private and public inpatient healthcare utilization with the marital status of the elderly. The study found that widowed men and women generally used public healthcare for hospitalization, while married men and women preferred private healthcare. Our findings also indicated that private inpatient health services expenditure was higher for married elderly than widowed elderly. After controlling all covariates, widowhood was significantly associated with higher use of public healthcare services for women but not for men. India's current health care policy and program may be required to focus on improving the infrastructure quality of current public healthcare systems. It also needs to be favorable for vulnerable sections of society, especially widowed women, to avail better treatment at an affordable cost.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"183-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10679959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aging in rural Nigeria: gendered exclusion of rural older adults and its impact on their perceived life satisfaction in South-East Nigeria.","authors":"Prince Chiagozie Ekoh,&nbsp;Ngozi E Chukwu,&nbsp;Uzoma O Okoye","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2021.1999734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.1999734","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Globally, there is an immense increase in the number of older adults. This can be attributed to an increase in life expectancy brought about by advances in general living standards as well as medicine and healthcare. However, exclusion which is linked to discrimination and access restrictions in areas such as education, employment, housing, and medical care has been identified as one of the challenges facing this increasing demographic. This study explored the exclusion of older rural women in southeast Nigeria and its impact on their life satisfaction. The study used a qualitative method of research to obtain data from a sample of 32 older adults aged 65 years and above through focus group discussions in Nru community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The obtained data were thematically analyzed and the findings showed that many older rural women in the study area are socially excluded at home, churches, and the larger society, with poverty and stereotyping of older rural women as less intelligent identified as the leading factor predisposing them to social exclusion in Nigeria. Results also showed that social exclusion brings about sadness and depression which have severe negative implications on their life satisfaction. Finally, implications of the findings for gerontological social workers through advocacy geared toward changes in social policy and structures that promote ageism were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"139-151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9233201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is Urban Agriculture Sustaining the Urban Poor? A Study of Grandmother Headed Households (GHHs) in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.","authors":"Chipo Hungwe","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2021.2020062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2021.2020062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this study of urban agriculture in Bulawayo, I examine the extent to which the activity sustains the poor and reduces social exclusion in grandmother-headed households. A qualitative case study design was employed to study the lives of 19 older women. Findings indicate that urban agriculture does not assist in reducing food insecurity and social exclusion among the research participants because of several factors. Challenges in acquiring farming land, medical conditions, and the strenuous and less integrated nature of the urban agriculture practice affect the extent to which urban agriculture secures families from hunger. Social assistance is needed for members of grandmother-headed households.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"194-209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9248731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diseases, health behaviors, psychological health and associated factors among women aged 50-70 years: a cross-sectional study in Hunan Province, China.","authors":"Min Nie,&nbsp;Yang Luo,&nbsp;Yan-Ting Meng,&nbsp;Ling Fan,&nbsp;Jing Yue,&nbsp;Ting Li,&nbsp;Chen-Xi Tong","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2022.2026164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2022.2026164","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This cross-sectional study identified 2, 585 women aged 50-70 with certain diseases, health behaviors and psychological health problems among a representative and community-conducted sample of women in Hunan Province of China. It disclosed their poor health status: 51.0% had chronic diseases, 49.6% had gynecopathy, 23.6% had mastopathy, 57.1% failed to avoid secondhand smoke, less than 50% completed periodic health examinations, and 3.1% were anxious. Chronic diseases are expected to be serious health problems in the next 10 years, emphasizing the importance of women discussing their health status. Common diseases should be managed via public health service projects, and free screening and treatment of common diseases should be provided. To enhance women's health knowledge and awareness, targeted health education is necessary in accordance with their physiological and psychological characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 2","pages":"210-222"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10681070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intersectionality and the role of the lifecourse in older women's lives.","authors":"Joyce Weil","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2022.2142001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2022.2142001","url":null,"abstract":"When reading and writing about place and older women, questions often come to mind, among them: how do we capture the layered experiences of older women’s lives? What are the characteristics that intersect or work together to impact women’s overall health and other outcome measures? And what is the role of social structure or structural societal and historical elements contributing to women’s varied experiences of aging? The articles compiled in this issue were selected because they each address these particular themes in the research about older women. Many of the articles build on Kimberl e Crenshaw’s and Patricia Hill Collins’ concept of intersectionality for older women. As Crenshaw (2017) explains, “intersectionality is the lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s not simply that there’s a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times, that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things” (p. 1). I argue that these intersecting structures and identities must also incorporate age as a category (Mitra and Weil, 2016; Weil, forthcoming). As author Natalie Byfield suggests, intersectionality “allows researchers to reveal the underlying categorical boundaries such as race, class, gender, and age that are constructed as interlocking systems of oppression and must be negotiated as people (who are raced, classed, and gendered) navigate those boundaries as they move through the lifecourse” (in Mitra & Weil, 2016, pp. 48–49). The articles curated in this issue also add in another vital lens for research about and with older women, namely adapting Glen Elder’s (1998) lifecourse perspective that looks at linked lives and the way that individual lives are bound within historical, temporal, societal, and cultural contexts. The approach suggests that we examine multiple identities, roles, and statuses of older women simultaneously. A lifecourse perspective integrates both a micro or individual level of analysis with macro or societal and structural-level components. The lifecourse perspective reminds us that we need to look at older women’s lives in both an individual sense and also within the advantages and disadvantages of the time and place in which one lives and their intersectional characteristics. Combining an intersectional and lifecourse approach requires that we use various research designs and theoretical underpinnings as tools in unison as well as placing research in the context of societal structure. Older women’s lives are layered and multi-leveled, and the goal of this issue is to capture and reflect this experience through the articles highlighted within it. Hamiduzzaman et al.’s (2021) article, “When I suffer from fever, I eat mangos”: Determinants of health seeking beliefs and behaviors of rural older women in Sylhet, Bangladesh,” applies socioecological theory to address how power relationships impact he","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10831938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The spousal role of middle-aged Iranian women: A qualitative content-analysis study.","authors":"Fatemeh Fallahi,&nbsp;Monireh Anoosheh,&nbsp;Mahshid Foroughan,&nbsp;Zohreh Vanaki,&nbsp;Anoshirvan Kazemnejad","doi":"10.1080/08952841.2022.2115768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2022.2115768","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to explain the spousal role in the lives of Iranian middle-aged women. This qualitative study was conducted in Iran from July 2018 to November 2019. The participants included 25 middle-aged women selected through purposive sampling. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed through conventional content analysis. The theme of <i>reviving the spousal role</i> was explained by three main categories of <i>paying more attention to the spouse's need</i>s, <i>enhancing feminine charms,</i> and <i>maintaining married life</i>. A deeper understanding of the middle-aged women's spousal role may help health-care personnel to develop indigenous marriage-enrichment programs for middle-aged individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":47001,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Women & Aging","volume":"35 1","pages":"98-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10459581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}