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Ageing is a demographic reality which poses many challenges for the aged as well as their caregivers. Though ageing is a natural and universal phenomenon, it impinges differently for men and women due to biological and cultural factors. One of the glaring issues of population ageing is feminization of ageing and longer survival of women poses lot of challenges in terms of care, service, finance, health, widowhood and morbidity. The study on care among old-old widows was conducted in Dharwad town. The research identified three areas where the problem is conspicuous—support system, health care and living arrangement. Since women live longer than men and the extended period of life is spent more or less in morbidity and neglect, it is suggested that the amount of old-age pension should be higher for women than for men.
Sir James Sterling Ross commented,
You do not heal old age. You protect it, you promote it, and you extend it.
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Jayashree, S. (2017). Elderly Women: Prevailing Paradigm of Caring Scenario in the Backdrop of Feminisation of Ageing. In: Irudaya Rajan, S., Balagopal, G. (eds) Elderly Care in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3439-8_11
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