The Psychological and Health Consequences of Caring for a Spouse With Dementia:A Critical Comparison of Husbands and Wives

Caring for someone with dementia can be demanding, particularly for spouses living with the care recipient. The main goal of this study was to clarify differences in the experience of caregivers who were husbands and wives with respect to burden, health, healthy behaviors, presence of difficult care recipient behaviors, social supports, and the quality of the premorbid relationship. The results of this study support research demonstrating a difference between the caregiving experiences of women and men. It is becoming increasingly apparent that female gender is a marker that places them at increased risk of high burden and less support.

From 'trailing wives' to the emergence of a 'trailing husbands' phenomenon: Retirement migration to rural areas

Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a 'trailing wife' or 'trailing mother' with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between husbands and wives when employment or career-motivated moves are removed from the decision-making process. This is analysed with reference to retirement migration to rural areas of the UK and involved interviews with both partners present. For this cohort of retired couples, and in common with the literature, migration during economically active life course stages demonstrates strong 'trailing wife' and 'trailing mother' tendencies. The male's decision to retire signalled the commencement of a retirement life course stage for the couple. However, in contrast to the earlier male dominated decision-making, retirement migration saw the emergence of a 'trailing husband' phenomenon. Wives appear to adapt most successfully to the new rural environment while many husbands found it difficult to adjust (at least initially) to the multiple life changes: moving from largely urban areas to a rural setting alongside exiting the workforce. The findings suggest that the role of leader/ follower changed during the course of these couples' lives together and in relation to their reasons for moving.

Psychosexual Perspectives of the Husbands of Women Treated With an Elective Hysterectomy

The purpose of this study was to explore the psychosexual perspectives of a group of Brazilian men whose wives underwent an elective hysterectomy. A qualitative design based on the narrative analysis method was used to interview 22 husbands. Results showed similarities and differences among husbands regarding the support provided to their wives, the notion of sexual absence in the postsurgical period, the notion of sexual pleasure after the hysterectomy, and feelings regarding the impossibility of having children. The authors conclude that personal care requirements should be identified and satisfied to provide comprehensive and meaningful care.

Tales of married life : ntaining [i.e. containing] Lovers and husbands, Married and single, Sweethearts and wives /

Mode of access: Internet.

Mrs. Skaggs's husbands, and other sketches.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mrs. Skagg's husbands.

Mode of access: Internet.

The two heiresses of Buccleuch; Ladies Mary and Anna Scott and their husbands, Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras, and James, Duke of Buccleuch and Monmouth, 1647-1732.

"Reprinted from 'The Scotts of Buccleuch'."

Hints for husbands : a comedy in five acts /

Imprint on cover: London, J. Cumberland; New York [etc.] Turner & Fisher, 1836.

Ellen Wareham, the wife of two husbands; a domestic drama in two acts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Sexual knowledge, in plain and simple language; sexology or knowledge of self and sex for both male and female: especially for the instruction of youths and maidens, young wives and young husbands, all fathers and all mothers, school-teachers and nurses, and all others who feel a need of proper and reliable information on sex hygiene, sex problems, and the best way and the best time to impart sexual knowledge to boys and girls about to enter into manhood and womanhood,

At head of title: Sexual education for sex problems: sex hygiene by highest authority.

Her two husbands; and other novelettes.

Her two husbands is a translation of Jacques Damour.

Guilty or not guilty, or, A lesson for husbands : a tale /

Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,

The rambling justice, or, The jealous husbands. With the humours of Sir John Twiford. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal ...

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Policemen's wives demonstrate against policewomen patrolling in cars with their husbands

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.