Growing into a care taker, it takes a man to do it, women are already capable.

There was a study from the University of Michigan that points out in sickness and health when we get sick and age divorce can rise to 50%. If the husband is sick the wife tends to be the caregiver, but if the wife is sick the husband tends to divorce. 
“We found that women are doubly vulnerable to marital dissolution in the face of illness,” Karraker said. “They are more likely to be widowed, and if they are the ones who become ill, they are more likely to get divorced.” : http://www.stonehearthnewsletters.com/how-illness-affects-divorce-risk-amelia-karraker/relationships/#sthash.DJLuIe9M.dpuf
"When the wives became ill, about 50 percent of the marriages ended in divorce," said study author Amelia Karraker, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. http://www.webmd.com/news/20140501/in-sickness-and-in-health-isnt-in-the-cards-for-many-women?src=RSS_PUBLIC

 In my blog I mainly track strategies that fight the three major things that will kill us, cardiovascular issues including heart and strokes, cancer, and diabetes. If we do things to prevent these things we are probably helping the things that kill us.
Why do guys cop out when wives get sick? Why are women better caregivers? Are our roles understood with the guy outside the home with relationships at work and the gal outside the relationships at work and into the care of the home and it's relationships? 
On TV relationships are hard because work is chosen over the relationship, but that may not ring true true to real life. 
Work plays a role in the care of the home, but it seems as we age guys in particular need to learn to refocus into the personal care of the family. Like the Grinch, Scrooge, his care muscles and skills may be too small. 
I think it is entirely possible that women are the stronger, smarter, emotionally able than men. 
Have you noticed in the commercials and media younger women matched with old goats. The Clipper Owner betrayed by one of his bimbos. The grandfather in the beer commercial dating someone who could be his granddaughter. All of the erectile dysfunction commercials have an older man with women many years younger. Why haven't we men learned to "rejoice with the wife of your youth"? Trade ins can't help us grow in love and care?
But also if we are weaker when it comes to care are there better solutions than as we age pick up a newer model to remind us we are still strong? 
Here are a few thoughts:
Take one day at a time
Reach out for others to help
Put the job in perspective, they will move on without you
Your care may be key in recovery
A life lived without regrets has great value
Focus on our battle with the big things such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and fast forward the four hour erection. Keep walking