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Acta PsychologicaThe experience of widowhood and that of living alone are significant life events that are strongly associated with depressive symptoms in older adults.
Junyue Yue, Myeong-Sook Yoon
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Widowed persons in Serbia: Change in number and general demographic characteristics (1980-2016) [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2018 Widowed persons represent a vulnerable population group, especially because the loss of a spouse is usually a part of old people’s experience. In old age, people are typically faced with multiple constraints, related to health, financial resources ...
Penev Goran, Stanković Biljana
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SSM - Mental HealthBackground: Widows in sub-Saharan Africa experience stigma linked to their social identity of widowhood. Despite the known significant impacts of stigma on health and wellbeing, widowhood stigma is less conceptualized and studied and its effects on ...
Jackline A. Odhiambo +8 more
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Patterns of Widowhood Mortality [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2013 Becoming widowed is a known risk factor for mortality. This article examines the magnitude of, explanations for, and variation in the association between widowhood and mortality. Previous research on widowhood mortality has revealed variation by socioeconomic status (SES), in that SES is not protective in widowhood, and by gender, such that men's ...
Allison R. Sullivan, Andrew Fenelon
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Beyond the Veil: Voices of Young Widows in South Africa
Social SciencesThis article outlines the experiences of young widows in southern Africa and the impact of widowhood on their livelihoods. Despite numerous human rights frameworks addressing women’s issues, widowhood has not received adequate attention in the Global ...
Ratidzai Shoko, Sizakele Matlabe-Danke
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu +110 more
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Social SciencesGlobally, the effects of widowhood on the welfare, health, financial security and education of the widow’s children in many contexts have been the subject of much research.
Beatrice Taringa +1 more
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New Onset of Fibromyalgia After Exposure to a Combat Environment: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Traumatic life events are hypothesized to be triggers for the onset of fibromyalgia. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common comorbidity of fibromyalgia. However, limited prospective data are available on the development of fibromyalgia after exposure to high‐magnitude stress.
Jay B. Higgs +15 more
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BMC GeriatricsBackground Older adults with hearing impairments are vulnerable to cognitive impairment. Although previous reports suggest a correlation between widowhood and cognitive impairment, further investigation is needed to elucidate the effect of widowhood on ...
Xinyi Wang +4 more
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Does widowhood affect cognitive function among Chinese older adults?
SSM: Population Health, 2019 There is growing evidence from Western countries that widowhood may affect cognitive health in later life. However, little is known about whether widowhood is associated with cognitive health in Eastern Asian countries such as China and what factors may ...
Zhenmei Zhang +3 more
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