El ciclo vital revisado: las vidas de las mujeres mayores a la luz de los cambios sociales

Explaining the human lifecycle has been radically changed due to the increase in life expectancy. With regard to women, the aging process involves distinctive elements that are deeply rooted in the social changes of the last fifty years. Given the features of women’s lives and their numerous variations among individuals, the analysis of their experience becomes challenging when performed in terms of classic evolutionary psychology. The women living the aging process in the coming twenty years will benefit from the new feminist positions; they will be confronted with aging after having experienced work, economics, family, power and status positions that differ from those of their predecessors. Thus, they will have more financial, social and intellectual resources at their disposal