Perception of Menopause and Its Application to Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings‪.‬

ABSTRACT This paper examines the perception of menopause, its impact on women's health care, and how it applies to the conceptual model of nursing theorist Martha E. Rogers. Negative social myths and the disease-oriented medical view of menopause are contrasted with a holistic nursing approach to perimenopausal care. Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings, with its conception of aging as a dynamic human/environmental process of increasing complexity and diversity, is explored. Examples of Rogerian science-based nursing practice and research are presented as positive, visionary ways to transform the health care of women.