Background: Reduced physical performance and physical activity have serious health
consequences, but adult determinants do not fully explain variation in older people …

This prospective study examined the effect of widowhood on physical activity by comparing
widowed elders to health status-, age-, and sex-matched married controls. Participants …

Objectives To examine how changes in wives' and husbands' health influenced housework
time and domestic outsourcing in retired couples. Method We estimated fixed-effects models …

THE relationship between current mental and physical health and history of education,
marriage, child-rearing and employment was studied in 541 women aged 42-50 …

Based on census materials collected in Britain from 1921 to 1991 and using bed occupancy
as a proxy for health, this study focuses on the relationship between marriage and physical …

The aim of this study was to examine the associations of parental education and specific
childhood circumstances with adult physical and mental functioning. Self-reported data were …

We investigate multiple-burden and multiple-attachment hypotheses for the association
among marriage, parenthood, employment and health for Australian men and women. Using …

Who are the men and women who are single in their mid-30s? This study, which uses life
history data for a British cohort born in 1946, shows that an important minority are …

Objective: To test the associations of menopausal status, timing of menopause, and
hysterectomy with physical performance at age 53 years. Design: Using data on women …

From the very onset of interest in gender differences in health it has been claimed that
'women are sicker, but men die quicker'(Annandale, 2003; emphasis added). Less …