Chapter 12 questions Flashcards
State the advantages and disadvantages of married life in old age
Older married couples tend to have more financial resources, higher life satisfaction, better health, and greater happiness, tend to adjust better than to aging.
Leisure issues involved a lack of sharing or interesting the other spouse’s hobbies and activities, intimacy challenges include both physical and emotional issues, and financial issues towards spending habits.
What are some of the differneces researchers find between people in happy and unhappy marriages?
Happy marriages report reduced depression and anxiety, higher self-esteem, and also have a better chance of staying out of nursing homes.
Unhappy marriages include bickering, fighting, and abuse, disagreements over household concerns, and health problems
Why do people divorse in later life?
Marriage can no longer support the changing roles, needs, or desires of the individuals
What effect does divorce have on a person’s psychological and social well-being?
It’s economic insecurity, well-being, mental health, and family life that becomes a concern
What effect does divorce have on women’s economic well-being
It issues financial insecurity and supports the theory towards poverty in older women
How do women and men differ in their ideas about remarriage?
Widowed women often remarry for financial security.
Men often remarry due to loneliness
Why are there more widowed women than widowed men in later life?
Longer life expectancy for women, women tend to marry older men, and men tend to marry after widowhood
What different effects does widowhood have on men and women in later life?
Women have more close social ties than men in old age. They stay active in mother and grandmother
Men have fewer support than women and experience more loneliness, decline in their social functioning, and mental health status
What challenges and needs do LGBT seniors share with heterosexual seniors?
Stigma toward their sexual orientation, including worrying about discrimination in healthcare, housing, and long-term care
Why do some LGBT seniors express reluctance to use formal supports?
Feel skeptical of health care professionals and reluctant to rely on a system that has historically discriminated against them and pathologized their communities
What are some of the sources of support older people give to their families
Acting role models for their children to rely on.
Supportive roles can strengthen intergenerational ties and create more fulfilling relationships between parents and their children, as well as their grandchildren
