### person | adult | woman:

Older woman
* All older women are at risk for breast cancer.
* Many older women are leaders in their communities and respected members of extended families
  - unwilling or perhaps unable to tell others that they've been abused
  - attempt to prevent osteoporosis by taking calcium supplements
  - care for spouses, elderly parents, or grandchildren
  - develop dowager's hump, caused by deformity of the vertebrae
  - have osteoporosis
* More older women die of heart disease than men
  - live in poverty than older men
* Most older women are unmarried
  - widows, while most older men are married
* Older women are able to experience sexual feelings and orgasm.
* Older women are also more likely to die from cervical cancer than younger women
  - to have recurrent depressive episodes than older men
  - much more likely to be disabled in their old age
* Older women are at a higher risk of certain health problems than older men
  - highest risk for breast cancer, yet they are the least likely to get mammograms
  - even less interested in sex than older men
* Older women are far less likely to be married and far more likely to be widowed
  - good candidates for screening for breast cancer for a couple of reasons
  - less prone to abuse their male partners than younger women
  - likely to have been exposed to more mutagens than younger
* Older women are more apt to live longer and be poor
  - at risk to develop osteoporosis
* Older women are more likely than men to be poor or illiterate
  - younger women to develop breast cancer
* Older women are more likely to be unemployed
  - experience multiple chronic conditions
  - get cancer
  - have diabetes than middle-aged women
  - live alone than are older men
  - receive early prenatal care than are younger women
  - suffer from the dementia than men
  - predisposed to miscarriage and birth defects
  - prone to disabling conditions and cognitive impairment than men
  - resistant to stimulation with fertility medications
  - much more likely than older men to live alone
  - only about half as likely as older men to be receiving pension income
  - particularly likely to develop high blood pressure
  - psychic
* Older women are the least active of all age and sex groups
  - majority within our ageing population
  - twice as likely as men to live in poverty
  - vulnerable to violence from both their families and society
  - bear the burden of negative perceptions, and face social and economic discrimination
  - benefit most from mammograms
* Older women can also sometimes find that their periods stop for a while
  - reduce the risk of osteoporosis by taking calcium supplements
  - run faster because they're always wearing sensible shoes
  - enjoy the same status as male elders
  - experience little physical impairment as they age
  - face an increased risk for breast and cervical cancer
* Older women have lower survival rates than do younger women
  - many of the same health problems as older men and die from many of the same causes
  - special responsibilities toward younger women
  - superior sexual stamina
  - the highest breast cancer rates but are underscreened relative to their risk
* Older women have the lowest incidence of sexual dysfunction
  - screening rates of all age groups
  - learn and develop a wide range of skills throughout their lives
  - living alone make up most of the elderly population living in poverty
  - lose their hair, or grow it in the wrong places
  - love oral and anal sex
  - make up the majority of the world s illiterate, a result of historical education trends
* Older women outnumber older men in almost all societies
  - spend more years and a larger percentage of their lifetime disabled
* Older women tend to have more chronic illnesses that require medication to manage
  - release more than one egg a month, leading to higher rates of twins
  - wear skirts and blouses or dresses
* Some older women make their living as marriage brokers.