Older Women
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Improving Life for Women with Parkinson’s Disease
By: Melissa Schenkman Older Women, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesWomen’s experiences with PD differ from men’s and may include more non-motor symptoms. Women are more likely to be single or widowed, while men are more likely to rely on a spouse as their primary caregiver. Women can face longer times between symptom onset and diagnosis, and between symptom appearance and visiting a movement disorders specialist.
How Does COVID-19 Affect Different Age Groups?
By: NWHN Staff COVID-19, Older Women, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsRegardless of age, there are precautions all of us should take: frequent, thorough handwashing, avoiding nonessential travel and large groups of people, and disinfecting frequently touched objects. One of the most crucial steps those over 60 can take, though, is to avoid visiting with grandchildren and other young people.
The Reproductive Justice Movement: A Model for a More Inclusive Movement to Improve End-of-Life Options
By: Ninia Baehr End of Life, End of Life Care, Older Women Deep Dive ArticlesApplying lessons from the RJ movement to the right-to-die movement might mean understanding that “choice” at the end of life includes not only the choice to hasten death but also the choice to live and die according to one’s values and with better medical, social, financial, and environmental supports for the ill or frail elderly and their caregivers.
Can UTIs and Common Medications Mimic Dementia Symptoms?
By: Evita Almassi Gynecological Health, Older Women, Since You Asked, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Women’s Health FAQsSome dementia symptoms in older women such as delirium or confusion may actually be caused by the cumulative effect of taking certain over-the-counter drugs, or even by urinary tract infections.
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Improving Life for Women with Parkinson’s Disease
By: Melissa Schenkman ,Older Women, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesWomen’s experiences with PD differ from men’s and may include more non-motor symptoms. Women are more likely to be single or widowed, while men are more likely to rely on a spouse as their primary caregiver. Women can face longer...
How Does COVID-19 Affect Different Age Groups?
By: NWHN Staff ,COVID-19, Older Women, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsRegardless of age, there are precautions all of us should take: frequent, thorough handwashing, avoiding nonessential travel and large groups of people, and disinfecting frequently touched objects. One of the most crucial steps those over 60 can take, though, is...
The Reproductive Justice Movement: A Model for a More Inclusive Movement to Improve End-of-Life Options
By: Ninia Baehr ,End of Life, End of Life Care, Older Women Deep Dive ArticlesApplying lessons from the RJ movement to the right-to-die movement might mean understanding that “choice” at the end of life includes not only the choice to hasten death but also the choice to live and die according to one’s values...
Can UTIs and Common Medications Mimic Dementia Symptoms?
By: Evita Almassi ,Gynecological Health, Older Women, Since You Asked, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Women’s Health FAQsSome dementia symptoms in older women such as delirium or confusion may actually be caused by the cumulative effect of taking certain over-the-counter drugs, or even by urinary tract infections.
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
By: NWHN Staff ,Gynecological Health, Older Women, Probiotics, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Fact Sheets,Health InfoUTI: an infection in the urinary system (your kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra). Most infections involve the lower urinary tract (the bladder and the urethra). Urinary tract infections are more common in women.
Rx for Change: The ABCs of Hospice and Palliative Care
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,End of Life, End of Life Care, Older Women, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesAn 83-year- old woman dies on a ventilator in the ICU. She’s been hospitalized for five of the last six months of her life. A 57-year-old woman with recurrent metastatic breast cancer develops cancer-related fluid inside her chest cavity. She...
What Kind of Disorder Is Lichen Sclerosus?
By: NWHN Staff ,Lichen Sclerosus, Older Women, Since You Asked Women’s Health FAQsLichen sclerosus is an immunological disease that causes irritated skin around external genitalia, usually in the form of white patches where the skin becomes thin, wrinkled, and extremely sensitive.
Clues, Confirmations, and Questions About Hot Flashes
By: Rebecca Chalker ,Hot Flashes, Menopause, Older Women, Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), The Women's Health Activist Newsletter, Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Deep Dive ArticlesWomen who experience hot flashes for years or even decades after their final menstrual period have one burning (!) question: when will they end?
Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Right to Decide? How Women’s Health Advocates Might Shape End-of-Life Policies
By: Ninia Baehr ,End of Life, Older Women, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesAdvances in health care have made it possible to increase the quantity, if not always the quality, of many people’s lives. There is a growing right-to-die movement in the United States. I have been working on exploring whether, and how,...
Rx for Change: Death Panel? That Would Be You!
By: Charlea T. Massion, MD, and Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD ,Death and Dying, End of Life, End of Life Option Act (EOLOA), Legalized Medical Aid, Older Women, Rx for Change, The Women's Health Activist Newsletter Deep Dive ArticlesMedical aid in dying is a safe and trusted practice. Laws such as EOLOA are an important component of end-of-life care, and these carefully crafted processes can have positive results.