title: Menopause: life event or medical disease?
abstract: Women throughout the world experience menopause, but it is often difficult to determine what it means and how it is perceived by women. A dilemma exists as to whether menopause should be medicalized or treated as a normal life event. The effects of this decision on the woman and the role of the advanced practice nurse in assisting the woman through this time of change are presented.
authors.affiliation: Maternal-Child Division, School of Nursing, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Blackwell
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Blackwell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008593:Menopause / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D016387:Women's Health