OBJECTIVE This study described activities that older people undertake to reduce the volume of their possessions in the course of a residential move to smaller quarters, a process with practical, cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions. METHODS Qualitative interviews were conducted with members of 30 households who had moved in the prior year. The disbandment period, typically lasting abou...

Fractures cause an enormous burden on the individual and on society worldwide. In the Round Table discussion that begins on page 416 of this issue, the impact on the individual is described by Delmas and Fraser in terms of mortality and morbidity, and the effect on quality of life is clearly described through personal experience in a discussion article by Anna Peckham. The economic costs to hea...

Most existing analyses of the incomes of the older population have overlooked the dynamics of later life or the process of ageing itself. Yet, income dynamics post-retirement is of growing policy importance as a result both of increasing longevity and, in the British case, a change in the sources of pensioner incomes. Our paper contributes to the growing and new literature on income mobility, f...

OBJECTIVE This research tests the influences of age, biological, and psychosocial factors on sexual expression in later life. METHOD The American Association of Retired Persons Modern Maturity Sexuality Survey collected data on diagnosed illnesses, treated illnesses, sexual desire, sexual attitudes, partner circumstances, and sexual behavior from 1,384 persons ages 45 and older. Ordered logis...

Rheumatic heart disease with mitral stenosis has been regarded as a disease that produces symptoms in adolescence or early adult life, and death before the age of forty in the majority. It is admitted that occasionally the first symptoms will appear at the time of the menopause and that if the lesion is accompanied by hypertension, life may be prolonged beyond this period (Levine, 1945). The fe...