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Editor's choice How Does Bereavement Get Under the Skin? The Effects of Late-Life Spousal Loss on Cortisol Levels

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  • Virginia E. Richardson
  • Kate M. Bennett
  • Deborah Carr
  • Stephen Gallagher
  • Jinhyun Kim
  • Noelle Fields

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Objectives. We used data from the Changing Lives of Older Couples, a prospective multiwave study of 1,532 married individuals aged 65 and older, to investigate the extent to which spousal loss and death-context characteristics are associated with the stress hormone cortisol at 6 (W1) and 18 (W2) months postbereavement.

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  • Virginia E. Richardson & Kate M. Bennett & Deborah Carr & Stephen Gallagher & Jinhyun Kim & Noelle Fields, 2015. "Editor's choice How Does Bereavement Get Under the Skin? The Effects of Late-Life Spousal Loss on Cortisol Levels," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 70(3), pages 341-347.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:70:y:2015:i:3:p:341-347.
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