Women and Ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the second half of the lifecourse. In doing so it uncovers not only the commonalities and similarities between mid-life and older women, but also some of the variation and diversity relating to ethnicity and race, class, disability and sexual orientation.
Women Ageing makes ordinary lives of ordinary women, as, in this instance, they grow older, more visible. Its findings have important implications for policy and practice. All those studying or working with older people, will find it an illuminating text.

Contents:
1.Introduction 2.The Change: Challenges and Opportunities Gill Granville 3 Working Women: Paid and Unpaid Carers Judith Phillips and Sandra J McIsaac 4.Something for Me: Women Aged 50 Plus in Higher Education Patsy Marshall 5 Our Ageing Selves: Midlife Professionals Reflect on Growing Older Val Davies and Miriam Bernard 6.From Pin Money to Needlepoint Miriam Bernard and Julie Skucha 7 Widowhood in Later Life Pat Chambers 8.Love and Romance in Later Life Julia Ryan 9.Older Women, Long-term Marriage and Care Mo Ray 10.Loss and Change: Women's Experience of Grief Linda Machin 11.Conclusion

An anthology of essays written by contributors shortly after completing initial counselling and psychotherapy training. Contributors describe their experiences, the challenges and surprises of training, and changes they underwent. Each chapter begins with an abstract summarizing its main themes and the concluding chapter discusses the personal and professional significance of training. A valuable resource for trainees and trainers, offering a context within which trainees can set their own experience and guidance for surviving and thriving as a trainee.