Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part One: Gender Issues Across Cultures -- 1 Introduction: Gender Issues for Aging Women -- 2 A Woman's Aging Body: Friend or Foe? -- 3 Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Grandmothers -- 4 Older Women and Work -- 5 Old, African American, and Female: Political, Economic, and Historical Contexts -- 6 Women in the Middle: Caretaking Issues in Therapy -- Part Two: Therapy Issues -- 7 Mental Health and Older Women -- 8 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Psychosocial Themes in the Eriksonian Alliance -- 9 Feminist Psychotherapy with Older African American Women -- 10 Older Lesbians' Concerns and Psychotherapy: Beyond a Footnote to the Footnote -- 11 Strategies for Working with Women with Dementia -- 12 Working with Women with Severe Communication Disorders: Three Cases -- Part Three: End-of-life Issues -- 13 Dying and Death: Decisions at the End of Life -- 14 An Existential Approach: End-of-Life Issues for Women -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.