How to Measure Retirement Age? A Comparison of Survey and Register Data
AbstractDue to an increasing heterogeneity in retirement transitions, the measurement of retirement age constitutes a major challenge for researchers and policymakers. In order to better understand the concept of retirement age, we compare a series of measures for retirement age assessed on the basis of survey and register data. We use data from Sweden, where flexible retirement schemes are implemented and register data are available. We link survey data from the Swedish Level of Living Survey with register data from the Swedish Longitudinal Integration Database for Health Insurance and Labour Market Studies. We create fou...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - October 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
From Early to Later Life
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Source: Journal of Population Ageing - October 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Living Longer within Ageing Societies
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Source: Journal of Population Ageing - September 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Social Activities and Subjective Well-Being of OlderAdults in Ghana
This study describes the social activities engaged in by older Ghanaian adults and explores the relationship between social activities and subjective wellbeing. Data for the study was obtained from the World Health Organization ’s study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) wave 1. This report is based on 3970 adults aged 50 years and above who had complete data on all the variables measured. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between social activities and subjective wellbeing. Th e data shows that majority of older Ghanaian adults do engage in social activities. However, being fe...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - August 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Working Beyond age 65 in Ireland
AbstractExtending working lives is often proposed as one route through which the costs associated with population ageing can be managed. In that context, understanding who currently works for longer can help policymakers to design policies to facilitate longer working. In particular, it is important to know if longer working is a choice or a necessity, where necessity arises from a lack of pension income. In this paper, we use data from the first four waves of the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (TILDA), covering the period 2010 –2016, to examine patterns of employment among men and women aged 65+. We find that a lack...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - August 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Generational Differences in Work Values and Attitudes: Reintroducing Retirees to the Workforce
AbstractReintroducing retirees into the workforce has been proposed as a solution to population ageing. This paper explores whether generational differences about work values and attitudes might represent a barrier to the reintroduction of retirees to the workforce. Based on empirical data collected from pre and post interviews with 32 respondents across three generational cohorts in Australia, and a research intervention to simulate retirees ’ reintroduction to the workforce, this paper theorizes about workplace conflict caused by generational differences. The pre-research intervention results show significant generatio...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - August 26, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Involving Older Adults in Developing Physical Activity Interventions to Promote Engagement: a Literature Review
AbstractPhysical activity (PA) is associated with health benefits, with policy across the world focussing on increasing participation. Yet uptake and adherence to PA amongst older adults remains below the recommended 150 min/week. This review aims to identify how older adults have been involved in the design, delivery, implementation and promotion of interventions to promote PA uptake and adherence, and whether there are any recorded benefits of this involvement. Systematic searches of CINAHL, Embase, HMIC, MEDLIN E, PsychINFO, Social Policy and Practice and the SSCI were undertaken. Inclusion/exclusion criteria were: (i...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - June 23, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Impact of Changing Demography and Socioeconomic Environments, and Ageing in a Small, Rural Town in Australia
AbstractIn rural Australia, the recent global economic downturn was heralded by a highly competitive, global market neo-liberalisation, coupled with the effects of climate change, and a downward spiral of rural depopulation. These structural changes enabled the erosion of once vibrant and independent agricultural regions, and the amalgamation and/or collapse of many of the long-term political, economic, and social institutions in small towns. This paper explores the intersection of these population and socioeconomic changes, and ageing, in a small town in rural Australia. It is based on an analysis of empirical data captur...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - June 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Populating Aging in Rural India: Implication for Agriculture and Smallholder Farmers
AbstractThe research attempts to document the effects of rural aging in India by examining theassociation between aging andagriculture using rural households as a target group. Key agricultural activitiesperformed by farmers, self-reported andobserved physical intensity of those activities, and their distribution across age, amongother aspects, are explored indetail. Semi-structured questionnaire and fitness trackers, along with the standarddescriptive statistics and regressionanalyses were used to collect and analyze data within Lakhisarai district. The resultsshow at what age are farmersmost and least active before retir...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - May 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Economic Analysis of Health Inequality Among the Elderly in Ghana
In this study, we seek to measure health inequality among elderly persons in Ghana to determine its existence and explore the factors driving it. Data for the study were drawn from the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘s Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE Wave 1) and analyzed using STATA and a Distributive Analysis Stata Package (DASP) installed in STATA. Health inequality was measured using concentration curves and concentration index (CI). Furthermore, a regression-based approach was used to determ ine factors associated with health inequality and their estimated contributions to health inequality. The CI for...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - May 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Chronic Diseases and their Association with Cognitive Functioning of Adults in India: A Multilevel Analysis
AbstractCognitive functioning is an important factor in determining overall well-being in adults. The research conducted in this area has mainly focused on dementia and gender differentials in cognitive ability. Using data from WHO ’s Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE), this study examines the association of individual, household, contextual socioeconomic status, and chronic morbidities with cognitive abilities of younger (18-49) and older adults (50+) in India. Multilevel linear hierarchical model was used to ex amine this association. Results show that the years of schooling and household income were positi...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - April 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Retirement and Aging Parents in the Swedish Population
This study investigated the association between retirement transition and parental vital status in Sweden. The data were derived from Swedish population registers of women and men born between 1940 and 1945. A discrete-time survival analysis using complementary log-log functions was employed. The outcome was individuals ’ retirement transition, and the main dependent variable was parental vital status, e.g., whether the mother, father or both parents were alive in the year that the individual retired. We also controlled for whether either one or both parents recently died prior to the retirement transition. This study’...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - April 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Relation of Physical Activity and Self-Rated Health in Older Age - Cross Country Analysis Results from SHARE
This study analyses the influence of individual and socio-structural resources on the relation of physical activity and self-rated health in older age. Furthermore, countryspecific differences regarding the direction and strength of these influence structures will be analysed. Based on the sixth wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE), a hierarchical multiple ordered regression model and 15 country-specific regression models were estimated to test our hypotheses. The sample consisted of 32,282 retired people from 14 European countries plus Israel at least 65 years of age. After adjusting for individua...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - February 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Ageing, Mobility and the City: Objects, Infrastructures and Practices in Everyday Assemblages of Civic Spaces in East London
This article considers how older people inhabit cities in the UK, looking specifically at how everyday practices of mobility intersect with the formation of assemblages of spaces and activities. In turn, this work interrogates the parallels, convergences and divergences of these mobility practices with experiences and measures of resilience and marginalisation. This prompts questions on the role of a diversity of civic spaces in the everyday experience of ageing – including streets, squares, transport infrastructures and community centres – in the constitution of the city and the need for social, political and spatial ...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - January 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Executive Function Training in Connection with Falls on Elderly Thais
AbstractExecutive function (EF) impairment is a significant contributing factor to falls in elderly people. The aim of the current study was to investigate the 8-week period of juggling task and Thai-Stroop test training on EF. Participants in this study were 28 elderly Thais: 14 females and 14 males. They were characterized as non-fallers and fallers groups. In participant characteristic aspect, the result demonstrated that both experience in the past and medical factors were prescribed differently between the two fall-related groups. Examples of experience in the past are former occupation and number of falls. Factors re...
Source: Journal of Population Ageing - January 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
