title: Older women's experience of the menopause.
abstract: Older women are often stereotyped as less productive and less healthy, bemoaning the end of their fertile life and crying out for hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The author of this article challenges these images and suggests that the menopause marks a beginning rather than an end. Nurses should take a more positive approach to women entering the later part of their lives.
authors.affiliation: Provider Support Unit-Nursing and Midwifery Education, Craigavon.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008593:Menopause / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health