Working beyond SPA and the trajectories of cognitive and mental health of UK pensioners: Do gender, choice, and occupational status matter?
AbstractWe assessed the association between work status beyond state pension age (SPA) and the long-term trajectories of cognitive and mental health for men and women separately, and the extent to which this relationship is conditioned by their occupational status and whether the choice to retire or continue working is voluntary or involuntary. Data are pensioners (aged between SPA and SPA + 9) from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing waves 4 (2008/09) through 9 (2018/19). The analytic sample includes 959 men and 1217 women when considering cognitive outcomes and 1131 men and 1434 women when evaluating depression...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - September 1, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Health and labor force participation among older workers in Switzerland: a growth curve analysis
This study investigated how individual trajectories of self-rated health (SRH) and working hours among older workers in Switzerland are interrelated and how this relationship varies based on occupation. We used data from the Swiss Household Panel to analyze the long-term trajectories of older workers measured in terms of working hours and SRH. The sample included more than 4000 workers aged 50 to 65(men)/64(women). We ran a bivariate response multilevel model for growth that allowed the examination of between- and within-individual changes over time. On a between-individual level, we found that the upper non-manual workers...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - August 12, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Coping with stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in the oldest-old population
AbstractThe aim of the study is to investigate psychosocial factors that are associated with positive and negative coping with stress, as well as with worries about and perceived threat by COVID-19 to enable us to provide adequate support for oldest-old individuals. A paper –pencil-based survey assessed COVID-19 worries and perceived threat, depression, anxiety, somatization, social support, loneliness, resilience, positive and negative coping in a sample ofn = 197 oldest-old individuals (78–100 years). Linear multivariate and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted. Individuals with high levels of resi...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - August 11, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Employee perception of managers ’ attitudes towards older workers is associated with risk of loss of paid work before state pension age: prospective cohort study with register follow-up
AbstractIt is increasingly urgent to retain older workers in the workforce. In the present study, we analysed the prospective associations between employees ’ perceptions of their managers’ attitudes towards older workers, and of having experienced age discrimination in the labour market with the risk of loss of paid work before the state pension age. Questionnaire data from 10,320 currently employed workers aged 50 + on perceptions of managers’ attitudes towards older workers and perceived age discrimination were collected at baseline in the SeniorWorkingLife study. Data on labour market affiliation were obtaine...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - August 10, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Functional disability and utilisation of long-term care in the older population in England: a dual trajectory analysis
This study investigates the developmental trajectories of long-term care needs and utilisation in older people aged 65 years and over in England. The data came from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing (ELSA, waves 6–9, 2012–2018,N = 13,425). We conducted dual trajectory analyses to cluster people’s trajectories of care needs (measured by functional disability) and utilisation into distinct groups. We conducted logistic regression analyses to identify the factors associated with trajectory memberships. We identified thr ee trajectories of long-term needs (low, medium, and high) and three trajectories of c...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - August 2, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Chronic patients as retirement-aged workers: the impact of employment-based health insurance and chronic conditions on health-related working capacity and late-life career participation
AbstractRetirement-aged workers with chronic conditions are increasingly engaged in late-life careers in the policy context of delayed retirement initiative. However, it remains uncertain as to how chronic conditions and employment-based social health insurance interact to affect health-related working capacity and late career participation in this group of people. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) and the discrete choice model, this study finds that chronic conditions are negatively associated with health-related working capacity ( – 0.400,p < 0.01) and late-life caree...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - July 30, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements
AbstractPersistent inequalities in access to community-based support limit opportunities for independent living for older people with care needs in Europe. Our study focuses on investigating how gender, widowhood and living arrangement associate with the probability of receiving home and community-based care, while accounting for the shorter-term associations of transitions into widowhood (bereavement) and living alone, as well as the longer –term associations of being widowed and living alone. We use comparative, longitudinal data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (collected between 2004 and 201...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - July 27, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic —are unpartnered and childless older adults at higher risk?
AbstractCOVID-19 mitigation efforts had the potential to exacerbate loneliness among older adults, particularly for the unpartnered or childless, yet specific studies on loneliness among these groups during the COVID-19 pandemic are lacking. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) collected before (October 2019 –March 2020) and during the pandemic (June–August 2020), we examine two loneliness outcomes: (1) “have you felt lonely recently?” (both datasets) and (2) “have you felt lonelier than before the pandemic?” (2020), and examine differences by partnership and parenthood ...
Source: European Journal of Ageing - July 19, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
