Resilient Widowers

Alinde Moore is chair and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Ashland University.Dorothy Stratton is chair of the Department of Social Work at Ashland University.

• Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Studying Resilience in Widowers Models of Resilience What Was Lost: Wives and Marriages Illness and Death of Wife Caregiving and Communication Saying Good-bye Grief and Adjustment Living Alone Remarriage Life Values Carried Forward Adult Children and Other Social Support Cohorts and the Future Appenix A: Methodology Appendix B: Interview Topics Appendix C: Respondents and Characteristics Index

"This is a most impressive work on a much needed and neglected area of older men who lost their spouses. Moore and Stratton listened to what these men had to say and presented us with such a rich mosaic of feelings, experiences, and hypotheses for future research." - Leonard Poon, PhD, Dr Phil hc Professor of Psychology Chair, Faculty of Gerontology Director, University of Georgia Gerontology Center"