These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a

According to a recent population report by the United Nations, "in most countries, older women greatly outnumber older men. In many cases, the difference is so

The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during th

As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the