Epilogue : Prospects for treatment and research / Marie R. Haug, Amasa B. Ford, and Marian Sheafor. Toward a female gerontocracy? Current social trends / Anne R. Somers -- The natural superiority of women / Irven DeVore, and C. Owen Lovejoy -- II. Physical health issues -- An epidemiological profile of older women / Lois M. Verbrugge -- The aging skeleton / Robert Lindsay -- The endocrine and reproductive system of aged women / Robert B. Greenblatt, P.K. Natrajan, and Anthony Karpas -- III. Mental health issues -- Living with depression / Charles E. Holzer III, Philip J. Leaf, and Myrna M. Weissman -- Developmental perspectives on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness in the older woman / David L. Gutmann -- The aging woman and confusion / Mary Opal Wolanin -- IV. Social issues -- Older women in intergenerational relations / Gunhild O. Hagestad -- Adjustment to family losses : grief in frail elderly women / Irene Burnside -- Poverty and minority status / Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson -- V. Introduction to treatment issues -- Nutrition as prevention and treatment in the elderly / Carol O. Mitchell -- Surgery and aged women : indications and contraindications / Claude E. Welch -- The uses and misuses of pharmacology / Charles L. Hoppel -- VI. Health care issues -- Institutionalization of the aged woman : bane or blessing? / Eva Kahana, and Boaz Kahana -- Prospects for rehabilitation of the aged woman / Carlos Vallbona, and Susan Beggs Baker -- The aged woman and the future of health care delivery / Faye G. Abdellah -- Epilogue : Prospects for treatment and research / Marie R. Haug, Amasa B. Ford, and Marian Sheafor.
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