Life satisfaction in elderly women
Elderly single living women
Life satisfaction
Differences between the countries:
Significant differences:
Health and economy are not equally important:
Coping attitudes:
Ways to achieve higher life satisfaction:
If one only is healthy … ?
Nine years later…
Are changes in health and economy related to change in life satisfaction?
Change in life satisfaction?
Changes in factors related to life satisfaction
Conclusions

If one only is healthy … ?
Low standard of living and
politically unstable conditions
seems to be a more serious obstacle than poor health for achieving life satisfaction
Co-authors: Signe Tomsone, Maria Haak, Susanne Iwarsson, Anne Gräsbeck.
Life Satisfaction in Older Women in Latvia and Sweden – Relations to Standard of Living, Aspects of Health and Coping Behaviour
Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology