Old women are not happy with their husbands

A research from Flinders University proves that having an old husband is not a necessarily happy factor for women. This study is published in the international journal Developmental Psychology and measured the effect of different types of social interactions on the day to day happiness of 74 Adelaide men and women over the age of 85. “Women are more likely to experience bereavement from widowhood because men die younger on average but our research shows women are actually not happy when their partners are with them on a day to day basis”, Dr Chui, a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Flinders Centre for Ageing Studies and the School of Psychology, said. “We'd need to conduct another study to find out why but the assumption is that the husband is usually older than the wife, therefore the wife is more likely to be the caregiver”, she said. “But it's not that easy to leave the house when you're very old because of mobility and transport issues so governments must take the lead in developing policies that foster social connectedness among the oldest-old”.