Posted on 01/29/2007 3:03:33 AM PST by Cardhu
01/29/2007
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An award-winning health-care leader has this message to elderly women: living with your husband is bad for your health. A research project conducted by Koichiro Fujimoto of the Ehime General Health Care Association showed that elderly women living with their retired husbands had almost twice the risk of dying than women living by themselves. "There are many elderly men who depend on their wives for much of their daily lives, and the presence of the husband is a physical and emotional burden on the wife," said Fujimoto, who received an award from the Ehime medical association on Sunday for his work on the health risks facing senior citizens. Fujimoto's team started the research between 1996 and 1998. About 3,100 men and women between 60 and 84 living in what was then Shigenobu, next to Matsuyama, were asked to reply to a 17-part questionnaire. They were asked about their medical history, if they had a living spouse, if they smoked, and other lifestyle queries. Shigenobu has since merged into what is now the city of Toon. About five years later, between 2001 and 2002, the research team determined whether their subjects were still living. The researchers compared the 200 or so subjects who had died against the approximately 2,900 who were still living. In particular, they looked into the effects of having a spouse on those who were between 60 and 74 as well as those between 75 and 84 during the period from 1996 to 1998. Of the group between 75 and 84, women who had husbands still living had a 2.02-fold greater risk of death than women who were unattached. On the other hand, men living with their wives had only a 0.46-fold greater risk of death than men who were widowed. Similar trends were found for the group between 60 and 74. "While the presence of the husband serves as a burden on the wife, husbands who lose their wives also lose the presence of someone who will help with their personal matters in day-to-day living, so the risk of death increases," Fujimoto said. "It is important for husbands to become more independent by helping out with housework." (IHT/Asahi: January 29,2007) |
The strangest things come out of Japan.
Carolyn
IOW elederly men, if you just hire a maid service you will be able to dump the wife and
1. have the housework done with no complaints
2. no nagging about not helping.
3. a prettier view
4. Did I mention the absence of nagging?
5. The prettier view worth repeating.
OR
The two people can just realize they love each other and acknowledge the lifetime of sacrifice for the reward of having that special someone always there.
(..and you can still have the absence of nagging.)
"Have you seen manga and anime?"
I have watched them for a very short time and couldn't watch anymore. Even my grandkids won't watch that stuff.
I like the alternative much better.
Stick together you know each other better than anyone and you have all those memories of a shared life.
I agree, the author of the Study did not write the headline.
The statistic is actually flipped. The married people tend to outlive the singles because they tend to take better care of themselves, eat better, take less risks, drink less alcohol, smoke less cigarettes, and a variety of other unhealthy behavior. This is, of course, a generalization.
The exception would be the "gym rat" singles who are able to spend all their non-working time on a bicycle, kayak, skis, gym, running tracks, or similar.
~ Blue Jays ~
So, you're like the difference between aged prime beef and fertilizer?
-Of the group between 75 and 84, women who had husbands still living had a 2.02-fold greater risk of death than women who were unattached.-
My risk of death is the same as everyone else's. We're all going to die, period. Ain't no stopping it. If you're between 75 and 84 and you're used to having somebody around you could end up in a lonely place for your remaining years. That's not supposed to be good for you either.
My conclusion: we all still die.
I think that is quite enough fiber...
Lots of fiber there no doubt.
In this case it means she not only reads it from covedr to cover but internalized the news.
OTOH, I'm convinced that the only reason both of my parents are still alive is that neither one wants to give the other the satisfaction of going first...
Prime beef and marinated :)
But you can see it is a moving target.
Normally that's about right. But the democrat party sees it differently. Their voters escape death every election - be it elderly men OR women. Wonder why they don't do a study on that..........
Fat Teddy isn't alive - he's pickled...
More like, neither wants to be left to the tender mercy of their son
wadderyersayin'?
wuthless, gud fer nuthin', DD lovin´ son. :)
Oh. OK.
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