Age, stereotypes, and nutritional supplements use among middle age and older women.

As aging women take relatively high counts of medications and nutritional supplements, each addition to their supplements roster increases the likelihood of experiencing adverse health outcomes. Given these public health implications, we isolate the effects of chronological age and old age stereotypes in driving up the number of nutritional supplements taken by middle age and older women in the United States. We use multiple models that converge on the finding that middle age women, but not older women, who highly endorse negative old age stereotypes take more supplements than their age peers who fail to highly endorse negative old age stereotypes.

General and gender-specific dynamics determining the health status of employed family caregivers.

We examined whether gender plays a role in how financial strain moderates the relationship between health status and objective burden among employed family caregivers. Using data from "Caregiving in the U.S., 2015," the sample included 704 employed caregivers (311 males and 393 females) of adults 50 years of age and older. The relationship between objective caregiver burden and self-reported health was moderated by financial strain in the full sample. However, in separate analyses by gender, this moderated relationship was limited to females. Findings inform interventions to improve caregiver health while accounting for the financial strain experienced by women in particular.