Research has consistently linked marriage and positive health outcomes. In addition, many
researchers have found that couples often have similar or concordant health statuses …

Objectives Partners are a significant influence on individuals' health, and concordance in
health behaviours increases over time in couples. Several theories suggest that couple …

Positive correlations between mates can increase trait variation and prevalence, as well as
bias estimates from genetically informed study designs. While past studies of similarity …

Late-life husband and wife relationships are increasingly recognised as an important factor
in promoting wellbeing, particularly in terms of the health, social, emotional, financial and …

We review findings on spousal interrelations in old age in such key domains as cognition,
well-being, and health. Therein, we demonstrate that spousal interrelations may extend …

We develop a gendered marital biography approach—which emphasizes the accumulating
gendered experiences of singlehood, marriage, marital dissolution, and remarriage—to …

Background Physical activity patterns have been shown to change significantly across the
transition to retirement. As most older adults approach retirement as part of a couple, a better …

Spouses tend to have similar lifestyles. We explored the degree to which spouse similarity in
alcohol use, smoking, and physical exercise is caused by non-random mating or …

Current methods of cost effectiveness analysis implicitly assume zero spillovers among
social ties. This can underestimate the benefits of health interventions and misallocate …

Married men and women (N= 1,899 couples) reported readiness to eat a healthier diet, lose
weight, and get more exercise (stage of change) and indicated whether they were confident …