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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Older Women"”.
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Breast self-examination practice in older women
… of breast self-examination in a population of older women. This study tested the health protecting behavior of breast self-examination using the scales of the Champion (1985) instrument and the researcher-developed Williams Breast Inventory. These instruments were based on the Health Belief …
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Subjective Definitions of Leisure by Older Women
… were therefore controlled. Eighty, non-minority women from the ages of sixty through seventy-four from four socioeconomic groups (upper, upper-middle, middle, and lower-middle) were recruited using the snowball sampling technique. Informants were asked to first describe their most enjoyable …
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Breast Health and Mammography Screening in Older Women
… (CMS, 2006) reported that only about half of older women who are eligible for mammograms through Medicare obtain a mammogram every two years. The literature identifies psychosocial barriers, including a lack of breast cancer knowledge and cancer fatalism, as independent predictors of …
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Clothing satisfaction and self-concept of older women
… and self-concept of a select group of women age 65 and older. An increase in the number of elderly women in the population with special clothing needs led to the development of this research. Past research indicates that elderly women are dissatisfied with purchased clothing, yet prior …
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Narrative of Black Older Women Communicating with Healthcare Professionals
Utilizing Black feminist thought and women ways of knowing as a framework, this phenomenological qualitative research examined the lived experiences of seven Black older women, ages 67 to 87, communicating with healthcare professionals. The research questions that guided the study were: (1) what …
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The Lived Experiences of Older Women in Alcoholics Anonymous
… and better understand the lived experiences of women age 50 and older in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Guiding this inquiry were the following research questions: 1) How do the older women participants experience the AA program? 2) What aspects of AA do older women consider beneficial? 3) What …
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Safety practices of older women in three Korean apartment complexes
… whether the residential environments of Korean women age 65 and older living in apartments were safe for them. In order to accomplish the purpose, this study focused on the safety practices of older Korean women in their daily activities. The sample of 90 older women was selected from the …
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Decision-making in older women with breast cancer: a mixed methods study
… one third of all breast cancers are diagnosed in women aged 70 or over. Older women with breast cancer are less likely to be offered or receive standard treatment. Aim The overarching aim of this study was to establish the information needs and decision-making preferences of older women diagnosed …
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Community, connection, caring : towards a Christian feminist practical theology of older women
… connection, and caring are the means by which women live their lives and through which women understand and express their faith. These theologians also claim that their theologies are based on women's expeniences. In this thesis I ask, are the ideas of community, connection, and caring proposed …
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Older women - 'doing things a different way' : ageism, sexism and leisure activities
… to the dominant discourses on ageing and on women in our society, older women are unproductive, unwell, inactive grandmothers who spend most of their time sitting, knitting in rocking chairs - their main use in life is as unpaid baby sitters. Using Weedon's post-structuralist, feminist, …
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The third family : a handbook on group living alternatives for older women.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1977.
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Visual and Verbal Narratives of Older Women Who Identify Themselves as Lifelong Learners
… and self-study, explores the stories of four older women through verbal and visual narratives. Showing how two specific types of visual narratives—sandpictures and collages—stimulate experiential story-telling and promote understanding about life experiences, I also illustrate how engagement …
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