Working late: strategies to enhance productive and healthy environments for the older workforce

It is predicted that by 2025 there will be twice as many workers aged 50 and over than those aged 25 years and younger in the EU (Ilmarinen, 2001). Demographic changes, together with changes in pension policy, life expectancy and employment practices, are contributing to the increasing age of our workforce. Consequently, improved older worker integration and employment outcomes look set to be the key means through which economies can adjust to the pressures of an ageing population (Banks, 2006). The ageing workforce presents new challenges not only for government, occupational health services, and employers, but also for employees and their families. [Continues...]