Marital Disruption in Later Life

Download or read book Marital Disruption in Later Life written by Madeleine Honeyman and published by National Advisory Committee. This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people - 92% of the population - marry at least once in their lifetime and eventually experience the loss of a spouse. For the majority of couples, this disruption occurs in older adulthood as a result of a spouse's dementing illness, institutionalization or death. But for a growing number of seniors, spousal loss takes the form of separation or divorce; senior couples are separating or divorcing at an increasing rate and many separated or divorced persons are becoming seniors. This document looks at marital disruption in later life and focuses on the following points: mental incapacity; the continuation of caregiving following the institutionalization of elderly husbands; widowhood in later life; and, separation and divorce in later life.