I think in the gerontological literature we're starting to see more appreciation of the issue of gender and more realization that as men and women age—what it's all about is aging successfully, happily, actively, whatever it happens to be—they have had different life courses, different activities and interests, and they've gotten to different outcomes in their lives. They might all need, for example, some supportive counselling, but the content of that counselling is going to be driven by who they are, which is in part driven by the fact that they're men versus women.
So a man might, for example, find the retirement stage of life a very challenging psychological period, whereas perhaps an older woman who didn't experience a retirement phase of life, but experienced something else to do with family or whatever, depending on how she lived her life, is going to have different issues. Our current generation of older women were less likely to have worked outside the home. Depending on how she lived her life, her issues are going to be different. The content of her counselling and her interaction with a mental health provider is going to be different from the man's.