All About Australian Elderly Women Living Alone

In Australia, elderly women accessing community services to remain at home outnumber men three to one.

This is revealed in the latest overview of who is benefiting fromcommonwealth-funded programs designed to help elderly and frail peoplestay in familiar neighbourhoods instead of taking the often traumaticstep into nursing homes.

The Australian Institute of Health’s report on who is gettingcommunity services, to be released today, shows that women are threetimes more likely than men to be living on their own.

Get the full story from The Australian.   Then, get a scholarly analysis of this phenomenon as discussed in Gender, ageing, and injustice: social and political contexts of bioethicsfrom the Journal of Ethics and Medicine.