Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work

ISBN-13: 9783030241346 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 463 str.

Sara J. Czaja; Joseph Sharit; Jacquelyn B. James

Spis treści

​Section 1: Current Employment Patterns and Demographics

Chapter 1. Demographics of Older Workers: Sara J. Czaja

Chapter 2. Workplace Aging and Jobs in the 21st Century: Margaret Beier

Chapter 3. Leveraging Ageing Workforce and Age Diversity to Achieve Organizational Goals: A Human Resource Management Perspective: Mo Wang

Chapter 4. Silver Work Index: Merging the German and the U.S. Perspectives: Jurgen Deller

Section 2: Policy Issues and An Aging Workforce

Chapter 5: Taking a New Look at Older Workers & Age Discrimination: Cathy Ventrell-Monsees

Chapter 6: Extended Working Lives: Feasible & Desirable for All? David Lain

Chapter 7: The Retirement Income Security Outlook for Older Workers: Causes for Concern and Reasons for Optimism: Kevin Cahill

Chapter 8: Programs and Policies to Support Older Workers: Richard Johnson

Chapter 9. Employment Discrimination Against Older Women & the Ineffectiveness of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act: Patrick Button

Section 3: Work Performance Issues

Chapter 10. A Human Factors Engineering Perspective to Aging and Work: Joseph Sharit

Chapter 11. Work Motivation and Employment Goals in Later Adulthood: Ruth Kanfer

Chapter 12. Older Adults and Skill Acquisition: Neil Charness

Chapter 13. Training Older Workers: Pathways and Pitfalls: Harvey Sterns

Section 4: Trends in Jobs and Work Patterns

Chapter 14. Preferred Retirement Styles: Continuity or Change? Kene Henkens

Chapter 15. Older Workers Employed in Low-Wage Jobs: The State of Knowledge and Setting a Research Agenda:  Jennifer Swanberg

Chapter 16. Insights from the Science of Teamwork: What Matters in Practice: Eduardo Salas

Chapter 17. Difficult Adjustments: Older Workers and the Contemporary Labor Market: Karl Van Horn

Chapter 18. All the Live-Long Day: The New Face of Retirement: Jacquelyn James

Section 5: Health and Wellness Issues

Chapter 19. Balancing Work and Caregiving: Richard Schulz

Chapter 20. Predictors of Disability Among Older Workers: Risk Factors and the Prospects for Prevention and Control: Robert Wallace

Chapter 21. Creating Age-Friendly Workplaces: An Occupational Health Perspective: Jim Grosch

O autorze

Sara J. Czaja, PhD, is Director at the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York, USA.

Joseph Sharit, PhD, is Research Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Professor (secondary appointment) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Anesthesiology at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, USA.

Jacquelyn B. James, PhD, is Co-Director of the Center on Aging and Work and Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.

Blurb

This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations. The authors describe current and emerging topics related to work and aging adults such as working in teams, the increasing diversity of the labor force, work and caregiving, the implications of technology for an aging workforce, and health and wellness issues. The authorship is international; the authors are renowned for their respective work in the topical areas and represent a broad range of disciplines within academia, as well as offer perspectives from government and policy.

Jobs, organizations, the labor market, and the workforce are experiencing dramatic change. Workers of all ages, including older workers, need to interact with the wide variety of ubiquitous technologies that are reshaping work processes, job content, work settings, communication strategies, and the delivery of training, and this book aims to update readers on the particular issues facing today’s aging adults in the workplace. 

The chapters’ broad and inclusive scope encompasses:

• Workplace aging and jobs in the 21st century
• The retirement income security outlook for older workers
• Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections
• Older workers and the contemporary labor market
• The role of aging, age diversity, and age heterogeneity within teams
• The intersection of family caregiving and work

Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work is relevant to a broad audience of academic researchers, practitioners, and students in psychology, sociology, management, engineering (industrial and human factors), the health sciences, gerontology/geriatrics, and public health. It is also a useful resource for government and policy leaders, as well as workers and managers in the public and private sectors.