Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: Gender issues across cultures
  • Ch. 1. Introduction: gender issues for aging women
  • Ch. 2. A woman's aging body: friend or foe?
  • Ch. 3. Cross-cultural perspectives: grandmothers
  • Ch. 4. Older women and work
  • Ch. 5. Old, African American, and female: political, economic, and historical contexts
  • Ch. 6. Women in the middle: caretaking issues in therapy
  • Part Two: Therapy issues
  • Ch. 7. Mental health and older women
  • Ch. 8. Psychodynamic psychotherapy: psychosocial themes in the Eriksonian alliance
  • Ch. 9. Feminist psychotherapy with older African American women
  • Ch. 10. Older lesbians' concerns and psychotherapy: beyond a footnote to the footnote
  • Ch. 11. Strategies for working with women with dementia
  • Ch. 12. Working with women with severe communication disorders: three cases
  • Part Three: End-of-life issues
  • Ch. 13. Dying and death: decisions at the end of life
  • Ch. 14. An existential approach: end-of-life issues for women.