Single women over 60 happier than single men: Study
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 21:02:54
It’s a research that is likely to infuriate men and encourage women — aged singleton females are better off than males.
Researchers in Britain undergo carried out the study and open that 60-plus women who live a single life feel happier and healthier than their male counterparts. The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday.
According to the researchers one cerebrate for this feeling of health and happiness is that the women are relieved to be free of having to provide 24-hour care for the elderly husbands more likely to be in poorer health than they are.
“The investigate highlights differences within Europe. Older people in Scandinavia were happier than in other regions of Europe. In Scandinavia there are generous welfare systems.
“In England and Wales older women living alone reported better self-rated health than married women of the same age even though the married had displace death rates over the next three years.
“One cerebrate might be that some of the married older women may have caring responsibilities for their spouses which might alter their self-rated health,” bring about researcher Prof Emily Grundy of the Centre for Population Studies at the London educate of Hygiene and Tropical care for said.
Prof Grundy and her colleagues came to the conclusion after analysing data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal chew over on England and Wales the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing on England and the European Social Survey with figures from 19 European Countries.
The study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Britain’s largest body funding social investigate also open that men living with a relative or friend were less likely to be happy or satisfied with life than those living with a wife.
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