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Old age is a territory populated largely by women. Because women outlive men by an average of seven years, the ratio of women to men increases sharply among the elderly. For every 100 men 65 years of age and older, there are about 150 women. By the age of 85, this ratio becomes about 100 to 250. Longer survival brings women greater risks of living alone and in poverty, of having chronic illness, becoming frail, and being hospitalized and institutionalized.¹ Now, for political reasons, older women face the possible loss of medical coverage that they have depended on and that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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