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Older women

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• Older people
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• Older women -- Diseases
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• Older women -- Great Britain
• Older women -- Juvenile fiction
• Older women -- Juvenile poetry
• Older women -- United States
• Older women in literature

• Aged women

• The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1911), by Mary Heaton Vorse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confessions of an Elderly Lady (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838), by Marguerite Blessington, illust. by E. T. Parris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Blessington's Confessions of an Elderly Lady and Gentleman (2 volumes; Philadelphia : Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• More Tish, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
• My Old Maid's Corner (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Lillie Hamilton French (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Wives' Tale, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Wives' Tale (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Old Wives' Tale (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tish (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cranford, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, illust. by C. E. Brock
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at victorian-studies.net
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text
• Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life (London: Macmillan, 1884), by Mrs. Oliphant (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2022), by Devoney Looser (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Miss Toosey's Mission (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1885), by Evelyn Whitaker (page images at Google; US access only)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Human Longevity: Recording the Name, Age, Place of Residence, and Year of the Decease of 1712 Persons Who Attained a Century, and Upwards, From A.D. 66 to 1799 (Salisbury, UK: J. Easton; London: J. White, 1799), by James Easton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Lettsomian Lectures on Diseases and Disorders of the Heart and Arteries in Middle and Advanced Life, elivered Before the Medical Society of London, Session 1900-1 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1902), by J. Mitchell Bruce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America (c2003), by National Research Council Committee on National Statistics, ed. by Richard J. Bonnie and Robert B. Wallace (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2009), ed. by Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Grey Matters: A Guide to Collaborative Research with Seniors (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2010), by Nancy J. Marlett and Claudia Emes, contrib. by Penny Jennett, Bob Stebbins, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Dooley, and Marianne Rogerson (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (2005), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• A Guide for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (electronic edition, 2002), by Kansas Department on Aging (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society (2005), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• Idealia, a Utopian Dream, or, Resthaven (Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., c1923), by H. Alfarata Chapman Thompson, contrib. by J. W. Thompson and Melvil Dewey
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Thirtieth Anniversary of the German Protestant Home for Orphans and Old People, 1852 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan (Detroit: J. Bornman, printer, 1924), by Fritz Lueckhoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third and Only Way: Reflections On Staying Alive (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (new edition, with pictures from the play; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910), by Anne Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)
• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), ed. by David I. Kertzer and Peter Laslett (HTML at UC Press)

• Aging (full serial archives)

• Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)

• A Grandpa's Notebook: Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication (2000 edition), by Meyer Moldeven (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, January, 1927, by Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, contrib. by James H. Maurer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, March, 1919 (Harrisburg: J. L. L. Kuhn, 1919), by Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions, contrib. by James H. Maurer
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Social Insurance: A Program of Social Reform (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Henry R. Seager (PDF files at ssa.gov)
• Reports of the Gainsborough Commission: Life and Labour in Germany; With an Appendix: Infirmity and Old Age Pensions in Germany (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., ca. 1907), ed. by John Laidlay Bashford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hearing Impairment and Elderly People (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• How to Retire Without Money (New York: Castle Books, c1958), by Bob Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demography of Aging (1994), ed. by Linda G. Martin and Samuel H. Preston (page images with commentary at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.