Midlife and Menopause
Other Recommended Resources
Our Bodies, Ourselves
General
Caregiving
Memory Loss
Menopause and Hormones
Sex
General:
Bauer-Maglin Nan and Alice Radosh, eds. Women Confronting Retirement: A Nontraditional Guide. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Cruikshank, Margaret. Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
Doress-Worters, Paula B. The New Ourselves, Growing Older. New York: Peter Smith Publisher, Inc., 1996.
Full-chapter coverage of most topics included here, plus other topics and resources.
Dunn, Hank. Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with Life-Threatening Illness. A&A; Publishers, Inc., 2001.
Gullette, Margaret Morganroth. Aged by Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
How American culture constructs the concept of “age” as decline, and how to counteract it.
Grady, Deborah. “Postmenopausal Hormones-Therapy for Symptoms Only.” The New England Journal of Medicine. May 8, 2003; 348:19: 1835-37.
Jacobs, Ruth Harriet. Be an Outrageous Older Woman. New York: Perennial, 1997.
Humor, empowering suggestions, and success stories.
Morrison, Mary. Let Evening Come: Reflections on Aging. Doubleday, 1998.
Seigal, Diana. The New Ourselves Growing Older: Revised and Updated. Touchstone, 1994.
Weber, Gail. Celebrating Women, Aging and Cultural Diversity. Toronto: Regional Women’s Health Center, 1994.
Available from RWHC, Women’s College Hospital
790 Bay St. 8th floor
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1N9
Canada
(416) 586-0211
Lieberman Trudy. Consumer Reports Complete Guide to Health Services for Seniors: What your Family Needs to Know About Finding and Financing Medicare, Assisted Living, Nursing Homes, Home Care and Adult Day Care. New York: Three Rivers, 2000.
McLeod, Beth W., ed. And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver’s Companion. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2003.
Morris, Virginia and Robert Butler. How to Care for Aging Parents. NY: Workman Publishing, 1996.
Coste, Joanne Koenig. Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Heilman, K.M. Helping People with Progressive Memory Disorders: A Guide for You and Your Family. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Memory Disorder Clinic, 1999.
Mace, Nancy L. and Peter V. Rabins. The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
McKhann, Guy and Marilyn Albert. Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity. New York: Wiley, 2003.
Benson, Herbert, Leslee Kagan and Bruce Kessel. Mind Over Menopause: The Complete Mind/Body Approach to Coping With Menopause. New York: Free Press, 2004.
Coney, Sandra. The Menopause Industry: How the Medical Establishment Exploits Women. CA: Hunter House, 1994.
Greenwood, Sadja. Menopause Naturally: Preparing for the Second Half of Life. Volcano, CA: Volcano Press, 1996.
Love, Susan M. and Karen Lindsey. Dr. Susan Love’s Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.
National Women’s Health Network. The Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break Free from the Medical Myths of Menopause. Roseville, California: Prima Lifestyles, 2002.
Nelson, Miriam and Sarah Wernick. Strong Women Stay Young. New York: Bantam, 2000.
Explains in lay language the research on preventing bone loss and building muscle. Provides an exercise regimen that will help women who want to keep fit, strengthen their bones, and avoid hormone treatment.
Seaman, Barbara. The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth. New York: Hyperion, 2003.
Brick, P. and Lundquist. “Sexual Rights Policy of the Hebrew Home for the Aged,” in New Expectations: Sexuality Education for Mid- and Later Life. SIECUS, 2003.
Butler Robert and Myrna Lewis. The New Love and Sex After 60. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
Kaschak, Ellen and Leonore Tiefer, eds. A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2002.
Klein, Marty and Rikki Robbins. Let Me Count the Ways: Discovering Great Sex Without Intercourse. Putnam Publishing Group, 1999.
Kliger, Leah and Deborah Nedelman. Still Sexy After All These Years? The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women’s Desire Beyond 50. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2006.
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