Ourselves, growing older women aging with knowledge and power - Doress-Worters, Paula B. (Paula Brown); Siegel, Diana Laskin; Perkis, Roselaine; Midlife and Older Women Book Project (New York Simon and Schuster, 1987)
Aging and well-being -- Habits worth changing -- Who needs cosmetic surgery? Reassessing our looks and our lives -- Weighty issues -- Eating well -- Moving for health -- Sexuality in the second half of life -- Birth control for women in midlife -- Menopause: entering our third age -- Relationships in middle and later life -- Housing alternatives and living arrangements -- Work and retirement -- Money matters: the economics of aging for women -- Caregiving -- Problems in the medical care system -- Nursing homes -- Joint and muscle pain, arthritis and rheumatic disorders -- Osteoporosis -- Dental health -- Urinary incontinence -- Hysterectomy and oophorectomy -- Hypertension, heart disease, and stroke -- Cancer -- Diabetes -- Gallstones and gallbladder disease -- Vision, hearing, and other sensory loss associated with aging -- Memory lapse and memory loss -- Dying and death -- Changing society and ourselves.
"Written in collaboration with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective..."--Pref.
"A Touchstone book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Aged women -- United States -- Psychology; Aged women -- Health and hygiene -- United States