Remarkable survivors: insights into successful aging among women
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Foreword xv
Preface xvii
Introduction xxiii
1 A Tale of Two Women 1
Mrs. Silvestri: You Make Yourself Happy 1
Mrs. Farnsworth: People Don t Pay Any
Attention 3
Authenticity of Reports 6
Background Influences 7
Strategies for Aging Effectively 10
Implications of Narratives 15
2 In Search of Successful Aging 19
Aging and Successful Aging 20
Subjective Dimension of Success 21
Health and Aging Successfully 22
Developmental Perspectives and Psychological
Well being 23
Psychosocial Factors Contributing to Health and
Longevity 30
Environmental Perspectives: Physical and Social
Setting 38
The Search for Successful Aging—State of the Art 42
Emerging Consensus 43
X Contents
3 Collecting Information from and about Older
Women 49
Ground Rules for Collecting Data 50
Design and Conduct of Research 58
Mrs. Grainger and Mrs. Crawford: Changes in Life
Circumstances over 16 Months 88
Representativeness of Women in 1987 Study 89
Life Course Perspectives and Major Life Transitions 99
Appendix 3 A Assets of 1987 Study Design for
Study of Successful Aging 103
Appendix 3 B 1987 Follow up Survey: Format of
Survey Instruments and Conduct of Interviews 105
Appendix 3 C Qualitative Interviews: Fieldwork
Procedures and Response Rate 109
Appendix 3 D Research Instruments 111
Appendix 3 E Rationale for Conducting Qualitative
Interviews: Shortcomings of Survey Method for
Collecting Information about Older Women 117
4 Major Transitions, Major Dilemmas 119
Two Perspectives on Change 119
Quantitative Indicators of Change 120
Comparison of Transitions: Whole Sample and
Categories at Risk 125
Living Arrangements and Social Support 126
Number of Children and the Desire for
Independence 129
Mrs. Smart, Mrs. Hoffman, and Mrs. Farmer:
Income and Choice of Living Arrangements 135
Losses and Gains in Close Relationships 136
Mrs. Grainger: Illness of Spouse, Widowhood, and
Dislocation 136
Functional Capacity 139
Expectations and Hopes 147
Moving Residence 152
Mrs. King: Desire to Stay Put 152
Major Dilemmas 153
Mrs. Peres: The Limits to Self Help 155
Transitions and Status Change 156
5 People Who Matter 161
Key Questions 161
Unmet Needs 162
Contents xi
Survey Perspectives 163
Families—the Ultimate Resource? 167
Qualitative Perspectives on Need and Social
Support 177
Mrs. Carlton: Friends and Reciprocity 178
Is There a Loss of Community? 180
Appendix 5 A Inventory of Kin and Informal
Support 183
6 The Model of Successful Aging 185
Meaning of Success 186
Mrs. Crawford: High Subjective Well being, Strong
Private Safety Net, Weak Capacity for
Independent Activity 188
Mrs. Peres: Fair Subjective Well being, Weak
Private Supports, Weak Capacity for
Independent Activity 189
Measurement of Success 191
Correlates of Successful Aging 216
Size of Correlations 225
Highlights of Model 228
Appendix 6 A Dependent Variables: Survey
Measures Used to Construct Three Indexes of
Successful Aging 231
Appendix 6 B Categories of Survey Measures
Selected as Independent Variables 237
Appendix 6 C Notes on Regression Analysis:
Explanation of R2 239
Appendix 6 D Correlates of Successful Aging:
Levels of Significance 241
7 The Markers: Successful and Oppressive Aging 243
Successful Agers 244
Mrs. Crawford: High Functional Dependency, High
Life Satisfaction 245
Markers of Oppressive Aging 245
Mrs. Smith: Defeated and Living Alone 247
Mrs. Peters: Frail and Homebound, Living Alone 248
Mrs. Sergio: Frail and Homebound, Living with an
Adult Son 249
Oppressive Aging: Overview 252
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8 Coming to Terms 255
Prescription for Long Life 255
Individual Adaptations 256
Mrs. Grainger: Optimism in the Face of Loss 258
Modes of Adaptation 2( 4
Mrs. Grainger. Mrs. Porter, and Mrs. Crawford:
Uniqueness and Patterned Response to Change 264
Environment as a Context of Aging 270
Coming to Terms—Extending Horizons 273
9 Conclusion: Lessons and Guidelines 277
Lessons from This Study 278
Relevance as Role Models 280
Guidelines for Action 285
Successful Aging: Private Strengths and Public
Amenities 296
References 299
About the Author 313
Tables
1.1 Indicators of a Sense of Well being, 1987 Survey:
Mrs. Silvestri and Mrs. Farnsworth 8
2.1 Selected Approaches to Successful Aging: A
Review of Studies in Chapter 2 24
3.1 Disposition of Sample: 1987 Survey 64
3.2 Disposition of Interviews with Primary
Respondents and Caregivers, 1987 Survey 65
3.3 Primary Respondent Questionnaire—Main
Headings 65
3.4 Sociodemographic Characteristics of Ever Married
White Women Born in 1900 1910: 1978
Sample and Survivors Interviewed in 1987 69
3.5 Selected Characteristics of Ever Married White
Women Born 1900 1910: 1987 Sample 72
3.6 Selected Attributes of 20 Women in Fieldwork
Study, 1988 80
3.7 Selected Indicators of Capacity for Self Help and
Social Support—20 Women in Fieldwork
Study, 1988 83
Contents xiii
3.8 Selected Characteristics of 1987 Survey
Population and Women Interviewed in
Qualitative Study, 1988 86
3.9 Comparison of Sample of 1901 1910 Birth
Cohorts and March 1987 Current Population
Survey 91
4.1 Major Status Transitions in Selected Life
Domains, 1978 87: 1987 Sample of Ever
Married White Women, Born 1900 1910 121
4.2 Reasons Given for Preferring Not to Move in with
an Adult Child or Relative: Women Born 1900
1910, 1987 Survey 129
4.3 Living Arrangements of Women Born 1900 1910:
1978 Survey Sample Followed Up in 1987,
Respondents Living in Private Households 134
4.4 One Daily Activity Women in Follow up Sample
Like to Do Most: Women Born 1900 1910,
1987 Survey 141
4.5 The One Event in the Past 10 Years, 1978 87,
That Has Changed Your Life the Most: Women
Born 1900 1910 148
4.6 Expectations for the Future—Women Born 1900
1910: 1987 Survey ( What Do Expect to Be
Doing a Couple of Years from Now? ) 150
4.7 Expectations, Hopes, and Salient Events: Women
Born 1900 1910 151
5.1 Percentage Distribution of 1987 Sample: Level of
Help Needed to Perform Five IADL Tasks and
One ADL Task—589 Women Born 1900 1910,
1987 Survey 164
5.2 Distribution of Respondents with Some Difficulty,
by Sources of Help with Daily Activities, 1978 165
5.3 Percentage Distribution of Women Born 1900—
1910 Who Say They Need Some Help with
Shopping, by Sources of Help with Shopping:
1978 and 1987 Surveys 167
5.4 Household Composition of 551 Ever Married
White Women Born 1900 1910 Living in
Private Households, 1987 169
5.5 Distribution of 551 Women Living in Private
Households by Generational Composition of
Household, Cohorts Born 1900 1910 172
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5.6 Primary Caregiver by Living Arrangements 174
6.1 Markers of Successful Aging 192
6.2 Independent Variables: Survey Measures, 1987
and 1978, Used as Correlates in Regression
Analysis 194
6.3 Percentage Distribution of Scores on Three Scales
of Successful Aging, 1987 Sample 209
6.4 Score Positions of 20 Women in Qualitative
Study: Three Dimensions of Successful Aging
and Combined Data Score 213
6.5 Correlates of Successful Aging 217
8.1 Dictums for Successful Aging: Women Born
1900 1910, Qualitative Interviews, 1988 260
8.2 Attitudes toward Selected Life Domains: Women
Born 1900 1910, 1987 Survey 283
9.1 Population Trends in United States, 1900 1987:
Population at Birth of Oldest Women in 1900
1910 Birth Cohorts and at Time of 1978 and
1987 Interviews 281
9.2 Household Income in Relation to 1987 Weighted
Average Poverty Index: Noninstitutionalized
1987 Survey Population, by Household Size 297
Figures
4.1 Capacity to Manage Five Instrumental Activities
of Daily Living (IADLs) and Five Activities of
Daily Living (ADLs): Women Born 1900 1910,
1987 Survey 145
6.1 Model for the Study of Successful Aging 198
6.2 Continuum of Successful Aging—Dimension 1:
Perceived Well being 203
6.3 Distribution of 1987 Sample Scores on the
Perceived Well being Dimension 210
6.4 Distribution of 1987 Sample Scores on the
Capacity for Independent Activity Dimension 211
6.5 Distribution of 1987 Sample Scores on the Private
Safety Net Dimension 212
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