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Older men: their social worlds and healthy lifestyles
- Author:
- ESRC GROWING OLDER PROGRAMME
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. Department of Sociological Studies
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
Over recent years there have been substantial advances in social scientific understanding of the lives of older women, but older men have been largely neglected. This research has redressed the imbalance by analysing how gender roles and relationships influence the quality of life of older men, focusing particularly on older men who live alone. Previously little was known about the quality of life, kin and friendship relationships of older divorced and never married men. Our research has examined how loss of a marital partner through widowhood or divorce may differently affect their social relationships and health-related behaviour.