Study Finds, Unlike Men, Women Who Are Much Older (or Younger) Than Spouse Have Shorter Life Expectancy´
(CBS) While studies have show marriage to extend life expectancy in both men and women, women who marry much younger men had better watch out – they’re much more likely to die younger.
A new study shows that women who marry men seven to nine years younger than they are increase their mortality risk by 20 percent.
This is the opposite of the finding for men who marry much younger wives – their life expectancy increases.
The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, changes assumptions about how marriage can extend life, owing in part to improved support systems spouses can provide for one another, and the supposed psychological benefit from having a younger spouse, who could become a caretaker should the older spouse become infirm. Read more…
