I. Borten-Krivine
SUMMARY:
To grow old, between war and peace.
The title of this communication, which refers to a situation of conflict, indicates
the presence of a battle which involves forces and goals that do not lend themselves
to easy identification.
Without a telescope, a vanguard can be distinguished: women who live longer than men as the extension of their longevity enables them to experience and to live over the menopause. There is a clear lack of curiosity from the intelligence service for this sexual discrimination of death. The lack of enthusiasm in research could lead to a situation where women, in a better shape, would live longer and longer.... alone.
The quality of life is a daily requirement, the characteristics of womanıs
physiology has lead the researchers to pay attention to the consequences of
the modification of the hormonal status in order to improve the quality of post-menopause
life. But in twenty years, this better resistance of women to the damage of
time, this privilege has turned into a handicap source of all dangers. Today,
the confusion between womenıs ageing and menopause is almost cleared. This new
danger would call for a general mobilisation of all women. Only one measure
is proposed to overcome it, hormonal rearming. Here the problem is not that
of hostility to hormonal treatment, but rather the questioning of the scope
and limits in which this ıtherapeutically arsenalıı is deployed.