Family ties have wide‐ranging consequences for health, for better and for worse. This
decade review uses a life course perspective to frame significant advances in research on …

Later‐life families encompass the legal, biological, romantic, and kin‐like relationships of
persons ages 65 and older. Research on older families has flourished over the past decade …

The authors examined associations between marital quality and both general life
satisfaction and experienced (momentary) well‐being among older husbands and wives, the …

Providing an integrated and thorough representation from current research and
contemporary society, Family Ties and Aging shows how pressing issues of our time—an …

Working from a life course perspective, we develop hypotheses about age and gender
differences in the link between marital quality and cardiovascular risk and test them using …

Objectives: Recent research shows that the well-documented positive effects of marital
stability on well-being and health outcomes are conditional upon the quality of marriage. To …

On the basis of a theologically grounded understanding of the nature of persons and the
self, Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King and Kevin S. Reimer present a model of human …

The sexual behavior of older adults, especially women, has undergone changes in recent
years, though there are still certain stereotypes today related to pathophysiology, beliefs …

Prior research based on studies of heterosexual populations suggests that men's health
benefits more from marriage than women's, in part because women do more than men to …

There is a lack of validated short screening instruments specifically addressing conflict and
cooperation post-relationship/marital dissolution. Accordingly, this study aims to validate the …