Old Female and Rural

<p>In reading Old Female and Rural you’ll discover just that--the reality concerning the daily living situations of the nation’s older female populations in rural places. This scholarly collection will help you and others dispel the romantic frontier myths of the stoic tenacious and independent rural woman. Instead you’ll find real direction for change in the statistics that truly reflect the older rural woman’s mental physical economical and social existence.Old Female and Rural will show you stark realities concerning the older rural female’s economic well-being intergenerational family relationships health care and service delivery availability and long-term care concerns. The candid demographic and epidemiological data you discover in this book will not only expose the myths for what they are but also allow you and others to transform the myths into daily realities of better policies and better living standards for the women who belong to this population subgroup. Specifically you’ll read about:</p><ul> <li>one woman’s subjective evaluation of growing old in a rural area </li> <li>rural women’s experiences of accessing health care </li> <li>the economic well-being of women aging in nonmetro areas </li> <li>changes in the informal support networks of women aging in the rural southwest </li> <li>a comprehensive synthesis of the above isolated topics which provides future implications for research education and policyWhile the legends of the old American frontier have died the older female populations in America’s rural areas live on--and they deal with some very challenging realities. Old Female and Rural takes you into the homes lives and minds of this complex and unique subgroup of America’s elders and points you and public administrators government officials educators and civil servants toward the unsettled frontier of real social change. </li> </ul>