Troubled conception

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 32.1-32.19
Author(s):  
Marian May
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Childbearing Intentions ◽  
The Life Course

In the context of low fertility and Australia’s ageing population, a national longitudinal telephone survey,Negotiating the Life Course(NLC), asks women about their childbearing intentions. This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine interaction between an interviewer and respondents on one NLC question about the likelihood of having children, Question 165. The analysis focuses on excerpts from troubled interviews, making transparent the task of negotiating responses acceptable to the interviewer and shedding light on problems inherent in the question for older women and women for whom prediction is difficult. Analysis shows the trouble to result from lack of congruence in the purposes of the researcher and the respondent: the researcher asks about likelihood, whereas the respondent tells her own story.

Troubled conception

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 32.1-32.19
Author(s):  
Marian May
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Childbearing Intentions ◽  
The Life Course

In the context of low fertility and Australia’s ageing population, a national longitudinal telephone survey, Negotiating the Life Course (NLC), asks women about their childbearing intentions. This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine interaction between an interviewer and respondents on one NLC question about the likelihood of having children, Question 165. The analysis focuses on excerpts from troubled interviews, making transparent the task of negotiating responses acceptable to the interviewer and shedding light on problems inherent in the question for older women and women for whom prediction is difficult. Analysis shows the trouble to result from lack of congruence in the purposes of the researcher and the respondent: the researcher asks about likelihood, whereas the respondent tells her own story.

Life Cycle Patterns of Physical Activity among Sedentary and Active Older Women

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra O’Briem Cousins ◽  
Norah Keating
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Life Cycle Patterns

Federal studies report that health-promoting physical activity declines markedly over the life course, so that by late life, about half of Canadian elderly women are sedentary. Although some older women are engaged in optimal levels of exercise, others develop lifestyles that are generally sedentary. This divergence of women's pursuit of leisure-time activity requires examination. Focus groups with active and sedentary older women were conducted to explore the variability Of participation in health-promoting forms of physical activity over the life course. The life course perspective of Bengston and Allen (1993) provided a framework for the investigation of the life cycle patterns of these women. Although life stages and life events of these women were similar, the pathways of coping with life challenges differed between the two groups. Content analysis highlighted the importance of turning points that led women to either significantly increase or decrease physical activity.

Older Women and Sexuality: Experiences in Marital Relationships across the Life Course

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hurd Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Sexual Interest ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTRates of sexual activity have been found to decline over the life course, as individuals experience marital transitions and the loss of partners, health problems, and decreased sexual interest. This article compares and contrasts earlier- and later-life sexual experiences and examines the changing meanings that older women ascribe to sexuality over the life course. Qualitative data from a study involving 24 women aged 52 to 90 who were remarried after age 50 illuminate a shift, as individuals age, from an emphasis on the importance of sexual intercourse and passion to a greater valuing of companionship, cuddling, affection, and intimacy. Situating the discussion in the context of changing cultural norms and sexual scripts, the article investigates the impact of health conditions on the women's sexual relationships as well as the women's tendency to have later-life sexual experiences more positive than were their earlier sexual experiences.

Understanding the Essence of a Physically Active Lifestyle: A Phenomenological Study of Women 65 and Older

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Kluge
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Gender Socialization ◽  
Active Lifestyle ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Physical Challenges

This phenomenological study explored the nature and meaning of being physically active from the standpoint of 15 women age 65 and older. The analysis presents a multitextured description of how 15 women maintained a physically active lifestyle for most of their lives. It provides information about why 15 older women value being physically active and how they negotiated a physically active lifestyle throughout their lives. Findings suggest that continuity of a physically active lifestyle was not a luxury these women experienced over the life course. Being physically active was affected by gender socialization, ageist attitudes, and physical challenges. Nonetheless, these long-lived, physically active women hung on to a concept of themselves as physically active; they demonstrated that active is an attitude and moving is a consequence. They have learned to improvise and, now more than ever, have taken control of their lives by being planful about being physically active.

Life course, exposure, and ageing populations

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Case Fatality ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Life Course Approach ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Older Populations

The demographic changes experienced globally mean that the 21st century faces the challenge of caring for an ageing population. Without preventative measures, this will be further aggravated by the successes of medical technologies which continue to reduce case fatality and hence add to the multi-morbid nature of older populations. A life-course approach to ageing conceptualizes the different trajectories by which traits may decline before leading to clinical disease or disability. It highlights gaps in our current understanding of the drivers of such trajectories and periods where the timing of adverse exposures may have a disproportionate negative or positive impact on later life outcomes. This is illustrated with a wide variety of examples and applied to neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia. Future primary and secondary preventative measures must consider interventions across the whole of the life course.

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