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When Older Women Speak
Aging, Emotional Distress, and the Self
Authors: Apesoa-Varano Ester Carolina, Varano Charles
Language: EnglishSubject for When Older Women Speak:
Keywords
Fire Flies; alternative self; Young Men; emotional distress; Ethnic Concordance; older women; Teresa’s Mother; African American women; Good Life; Pariah Femininity; Hegemonic Femininity; Feminist Oral Historians; Community Cultural Wealth; Johann Hari; Working Class Latinas; Antidepressant Consumption; Spousal Claims; Alternative Femininities; Friendship Boundaries; Latinx Culture; Generic Prozac; Caucasian Women; Word Depression; Parental Alcohol Abuse
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Studying the interaction of gender, class, race/ethnicity, and aging in the depression experience of older women provides a unique opportunity to understand how aging plays a significant role in shaping conceptions of self and emotional health trajectories for women. Based on author interviews with mostly working-class, depressed, elderly women, this book contributes to the theoretical understanding of femininity and aging and the practical implications for policy and effective health care treatment. Cultivating an "alternative self" can reduce older women?s suffering and provide the emotional resources to change their inner worlds, even if the outer world stretches beyond their control.
Depression affects women twice as often as men. Up to 40 percent of older adults respond poorly to depression treatment, and depression is linked to higher morbidity and mortality rates and cognitive decline. Older adults with depression have 50 percent higher health care costs, yet depression is accurately recognized in less than one half of older adults in primary care. While older men are more likely to die by suicide, older women are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide, and depression is the best predictor of suicide in older adults. Latina and African American women have lower rates of depression treatment compared to non-minority women. From issues of health care access to the stigma of depression, older Latinas and African American women are at an increased risk for untreated depression. This book seeks to address some of the significant gaps in our knowledge of late-life depression in women, especially in ethnic minorities, ranging from detection and efficacy of depression treatment to informal influences (e.g., family) on formal depression care seeking.
Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Way It Was
- Marriage, Motherhood and Work
- Doctors and Families in Health Care
- Depression and Its Treatment
- The Aging Feminine Self: Redemption and Transcendence
- Conclusion
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Bibliography
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano is an associate professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California-Davis.
Charles S. Varano is a professor at the Department of Sociology at California State University-Sacramento.