Abstract: This article , based on surveys and statistical data available , gives an analysis to those aged women who , due to the loss of husband, are among the inferior group .During the later half of the 20th century , the gap of the average life span between yenders(male and female) is becoming larger in quite a few developed countries and regions, but it is not the inexorable trend.Although the morbidity of the female elders is higher than that of the male , the number of the male suffering from mortal diseases is greater than that of the female .For that reason, the author stresses that a deep -going study should be made on how to lengthen the female' s average future life span and on how to reduce the behavior factors that trap the male elders in mortal diseases at the same time , as to speed up the increment of the male' s average future life span so that the female elders can be primarily taken good care of .

Keywords: old people, life -long health

摘要： 文章通过分析已有的调查和统计资料 ,认为丧偶是老年妇女成为弱势群体的一个重要原因 ;在 2 0世纪下半叶不少发达国家和地区分性别的人口平均预期寿命的差距在拉大 ,但并非必然趋势 ;女性老年人口的患病率比男性高 ,但男性人口患“致命性”疾病的比率却比女性高。在此提出需要深入研究在努力提高未来女性人口平均寿命的同时 ,如何改变导致男性老人患“致命性”疾病的行为因素 ,使未来男性人口平均寿命的增长速度更快些 ,从源头上关爱女性老人。

关键词: 老年人口, 终身健康