What are the perspectives on ageing of mid-life women in rural Ireland?
Relatively little is known about how mid-life rural women perceive their own ageing. A recent Irish study (Herbert, 2017) shows this cohort to be highly diverse in attitude and behaviour, challenging some stereotypical gendered assumptions about mid-life women. Qualitative data were gathered by interviewing 25 women aged 45-65 years of age from diverse socio-economic, demographic, and geographic backgrounds, and analysed and interpreted using a constructivist grounded theory approach.