An earlier report documented that, in a community-dwelling sample of 317 older married couples, cognitive impairment in a wife was associated with depressive symptoms in her husband (Moritz, Kasl, and Berkman, 1989). No similar effects were found for wives. Here we examine the extent to which marital closeness moderates the impact of a spouse's cognitive impairment, the stability of influences ...

Sir,?In the 3J years in which I have been working in the V. D. Department I have not yet come across a case in which both husband and wife had contracted granuloma venereum. In our clinic each husband is asked to bring his wife and each wife the husband, and as our men and women are treated side by side they generally come together. In the last year 1947 we saw 17 cases of granuloma venereum, 1...