What Is Aging?

Women approaching middle age are affected by the issue of aging and concerning how they perceive their appearances Holstein (2015) identifies that many women in the old age assess the challenge of aging and gender relatively to cultural complicated perceptions about ageism and body image. This lead to concerns of social security, illnesses, and retirement from work. Aging is a phenomenal issue majority to women as they treasure attractiveness and good appearances. According to Sabik (2015), the concern of age is a prison, culture always focuses on youth and beauty, therefore, such ideologies seem very discriminatively basing on age and shape of old women. Thus, it lower self-esteem, depression and may lead to psychological issues. Armbrust
(2001) argues that the number of old women in Europe will be higher than girls by 2004. This trend is mainly among the western societies however the level of various cultures, such challenges mostly affects the female gender was the standing emphasis is basically focusing on youth and beauty. Therefore in environment where the young are role models, it is most likely to result in more problems to ageing women thereby declining their values in society(Savage, 2004), Research approves that the media is the root cause of ageing concerns however, the effect of ageing does not stop old women from looking for ways to compete and they involve themselves in anti-ageing mechanisms such as wearing tight pants, high heel shoes, beautiful shape, hair color, short dresses, exercises and those things that feel shameful to the youth (Bedford, 2006)