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In this multidisciplinary portrait of men and their concerns in later life, the contributors use both a life course and gendered perspective to point out that the image and self-image of men are continually reconstructed throughout the life cycle. Issues examined include: the position of older men in society and the changes wrought in their status and roles over time; men's relationships to spouse, children, grandchildren and friends; and policy implications

Machine generated contents note: Part I Introduction -- 1 Men Caregivers: An Overview -- Betty J. Kramer -- 2 What's Unique About Men's Caregiving? -- Edward H. Thompson, Jr. -- Part II Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Insights -- 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Caregiving Men -- Eleanor Palo Stoller -- 4 Methodological Issues in Research on Men Caregivers -- Jamila Bookwala, Judith L. Newman, and Richard Schulz -- Part III Research -- 5 Psychosocial Challenges and Rewards Experienced -- by Caregiving Men: A Review of the Literature -- and an Empirical Case Example -- Elizabeth H. Carpenter and Baila H. Miller -- 6 Physiological Challenges Associated With Caregiving -- Among Men -- Karen A. Adler, Thomas L. Patterson, and Igor Grant -- 7 The Experiences and Relationships of Gay Male Caregivers -- Who Provide Care for Their Partners with AIDS -- Carolyn Sidwell Sipes -- 8 AIDS Caregiving Stress Among HIV-Infected Men -- Richard G. Wight -- 9 The Voices of Husbands and Sons Caring for a Family -- Member With Dementia -- Phyllis Braudy Harris -- 10 Brothers and Parent Care: An Explanation for -- Sons' Underrepresentation -- Sarah H. Matthews -- 11 Fathers as Caregivers for Adult Children With -- Mental Retardation -- Elizabeth L. Essex, Marsha M. Seltzer, and Marty W. Krauss -- 12 Differences Between Fathers and Mothers in the Care -- of Their Children With Mental Illness -- Jan S. Greenberg -- 13 Husbands Caring for Wives with Cancer -- Desiree Ciambrone and Susan M. Allen -- Part IV Services and Interventions -- 14 Professional Sensitivity to Religion-Spirituality -- Among Male Caregivers -- Jacqueline M. Stolley and Joan Chohan -- 15 Principles and Interventions for Working Therapeutically -- with Caregiving Men: Responding to Challenges -- Sam Femiano and Aimee Coonerty-Femiano -- 16 Service Utilization and Support Provision of -- Caregiving Men -- Lenard W. Kaye -- Epilogue: Implications for Practice and Future Research -- Betty J. Kramer -- Index

Marital status is central to one's identity. Using interview data from US husband caregivers and British widowers, we explore how men's relational identity as husband is maintained despite challenges as, and after, marriage ends. These data, analyzed using the constant comparative method associated with constructionist grounded theory, corroborate that the work of being married is key to identity maintenance for husbands and that the married relationship and its associated responsibilities affirm a sense of self as a man. Marriage shelters men, providing a secure place for that self-perception as a man. But a wife's institutionalization in long-term care or widowerhood threatens the ontological security offered through marriage and prompts identity work. We extend the literature in finding that (former) husbands attempt to retain their long-term relational identity and thus remain sheltered by marriage. They reconstruct masculinity-affirming identities through activities that help them harbor their self-presentation as a (former) husband.

While there has been a gradual increase in scholarship on men, ageing and masculinities, little attention has been paid to the social relations of men in later life and the implications for enhancing their social wellbeing and counteracting ageist discourse. Bringing together scholars in social gerontology and the social sciences from across Global North and South nations, this collection fills the gaps in key texts by foregrounding older men's experiences. It provides new perspectives across the intersections of old age, ethnicities, class and sexual and gender identity, paying particular attention to older men from seldom heard or marginalised groups