Exempel på widowhood

• The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage.

• It has, however, ignored other important dimensions of widowhood.

• But institutional pressures ensured that on widowhood such opportunities dwindled, and there was every incentive to remarry.

• The present study investigates the effect of widowhood on memory functioning in older persons.

• This study explored how spousal care-giving influences depressive symptoms six months into widowhood, and explicitly tested the relief model.

• These issues may be explored in future studies in order to examine the extent to which they reflect women's experiences of widowhood, in general.

• The following section deals with the demographics of widowhood and includes chapters on mortality and ageing in widowhood.

• Moving in later life is highly correlated with important life events, such as retirement, widowhood and divorce or separation.

• There are chapters on employment in old age, financial resources, health care, social care, housing policy, child-care provided by the older generation, and widowhood.

• A supportive network facilitates the adjustment to negative life events, such as widowhood and declining health, that are characteristic of old age.

• In the case of widows this would also enable them to deal better with the social disabilities associated with widowhood.

• Unlike widows, the widowers did not equate selfishness with freedom, or advantages in widowhood with freedom.

• The networks of repartnered older adults will be compared with those in first marriages and those who continue to live alone after widowhood or divorce.

• We began by addressing whether in general the data support a relief model by comparing care-givers' and non-caregivers' depressive symptomatology six months into widowhood.

• The average duration at widowhood is 49 years.