Generations back issues from April 2008:
Our Guest Editor
Apr 01, 2008; ... Talks about older men's health. This issue of Generations is devoted to older men's health, which has long received inadequate attention among researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. Many would find that lack of attention surprising. Given that more than 39 million Americans ...
Invisible Older Men: What We Know About Older Men's Use of Healthcare and Social Services
Apr 01, 2008; ... Reaching and properly serving older men can be a challenge for practitioners. The chronic health conditions that men face in their later years create a need for effective patient education and outreach as well as a systemic approach to the configuration of malefriendly interventions and ...
Gender Matters: Aging Men's Health
Apr 01, 2008; ... It is common knowledge that the United States and other nations will shortly confront the impact of the aging of the pig-in-the-python Boom generation on social institutions. With this unprecedented increase in the proportion of older adults comes a need to better understand the unique ...
Older Men and Sleep: The Body, Function, and Narratives of Decline
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sleep, which is essential for our health and well-being, has been called "a state which has little in common with our waking life" (Harrison, 1994, p. 4). Most researchers who examine sleep in relation to older men assess sleep quality and sleep disorders (e.g., Driscoll et al., 2008), the ...
Understanding and Increasing Help-Seeking in Older Men
Apr 01, 2008; ... In recent years, research has shown that men do not use available physical and mental health services to the degree that their physical and mental health status would warrant. Though men are more vulnerable than women to a variety of diagnosed conditions and other problems, men seek help less ...
Older Men and Sexual Health: Post-Viagra Views of Changes in Function
Apr 01, 2008; ... In August of 2007, media attention was raptly focused on a new study out of the University of Chicago, which showed that while sexual activity declines with age, many older people enjoy a variety of sexual activities well into late life (Lindau et al., 2007). "Sexed-up seniors do it more than ...
Sport, Aging Men, and Constructions of Masculinity
Apr 01, 2008; ... The benefits of exercise to functional health cannot be denied. A plethora of research has revealed the ways in which sustained, regular exercise aids the body, particularly cardiovascular health and muscular and skeletal fiinction. Indeed, when the term older men, exercise and sports is entered ...
Disciplining Bodies: The Aging Experiences of Older Heterosexual and Gay Men
Apr 01, 2008; ... This article explores ways that men in later life may attempt to retain or regain notions of youthful manhood-in particular, by disciplining their bodies through exercise or dieting. Sexual orientation is also a focus because it shapes experiences with manhood and with aging. Because ...
Declining Health and Competence: Men Facing Choices About Driving Cessation
Apr 01, 2008; ... As long ago as 1971, at the White House Conference on Aging, transportation was ranked third in importance, after income and health, as a predictor of quality of life in the postrcrircment years (O'Neill, 2000). In the intervening almost four decades, for older people, owning and driving a ...
Retirement and Older Men's Health
Apr 01, 2008; ... Although labor-force participation among older men has been increasing (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005), retirement is still largely viewed as a highly desirable life transition. Even so, there seems to be a popular perception that retirement closely precedes ill health and death and ...
Older Men Living with HIV: The Importance of Spirituality
Apr 01, 2008; ... Spirituality potentially can play an important role in the circumstances of men aging with HIV/ AIDS. The extent to which this is the case and the lessons that can be learned from examination of the surrounding issues have larger implications than might be generally thought, for a number of ...
The Challenge of Prostate Cancer: 'Half a Man or a Man and a Half'
Apr 01, 2008; ... To address how prostate cancer affects a man's sense of masculinity and well-being, one must first ask what it means to be a man. Obviously, there are many answers to such a question. Each man has his own version of his manhood. Some seem comfortable with the relationship between their reality ...
Their Story, My Story: Health of Older Men as Caregivers
Apr 01, 2008; ... Right from the beginning, I was a changed man from who I was before. I saw things differently, through new eyes. I started taking nothing for granted-every day! There was a new kid in town. With these words, George, a 74-year-old retired factory worker, describes the way being a ...
Osteoporosis in Older Men: Feelings of Masculinity and a 'Women's Disease'
Apr 01, 2008; ... Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disorder characterized by low bone density and associated with atraumatic fractures, pain, disability, long-term-care placement, and premature mortality. The condition is an important public health issue for all older adults, but the construction of osteoporosis ...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Older Men: If Only Time Healed All Wounds
Apr 01, 2008; ... Trauma has been noted as the "hidden variable" in the lives of older adults that affects psychological, social, physiological, and behavioral functioning. Understandings of trauma have evolved considerably in the more than two decades of research since the initial entry of post-traumatic stress ...
Men and Chronic Arthritis: Does Age Make Men More Likely to Use Self-Management Services?
Apr 01, 2008; ... Arthritis is a chronic condition that causes pain and disability. What does this mean for men given that traditional concepts of masculinity are linked to men's ability to show strength and independence and to maintain a work identity (Hegelson, 1995; Rubin, 1983; Huggins, 1995)? Does aging ...