Demographic, health, physical activity, and workplace factors are associated with lower healthy working life expectancy and life expectancy at age 50 [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAlthough retirement ages are rising in the United Kingdom and other countries, the average number of years people in England can expect to spend both healthy and work from age 50 (Healthy Working Life Expectancy; HWLE) is less than the number of years to
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The influence of chronic diseases and poor working conditions in working life expectancy across educational levels among older employees in the Netherlands [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 OBJECTIVES: This study aims to estimate the influence of chronic diseases and poor working conditions – across educational levels – on working life expectancy (WLE) and working years lost (WYL) in the Dutch workforce after age 50. METHODS: Information on
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Working life gain from gain in old age life expectancy in India [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2013 BACKGROUND It is important to evaluate the interaction between increasing life expectancy and changing age patterns in work participation from the perspective of planning for the greying population of India.
Preeti Dhillon, Laishram Ladusingh
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The influence of occupational class and physical workload on working life expectancy among older employees [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2021 OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the impact of physical workload factors and occupational class on working life expectancy (WLE) and working years lost (WYL) in a sample of older Finnish workers. METHODS: A 70% random sample of Finns in 2004 was linked
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Healthy enough to work up to age 67 and beyond? A longitudinal population-based study on time trends in working life expectancy free of cardiovascular diseases based on German health insurance data [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthBackground Due to the rising life expectancy in Western countries, the discussion about the increase in the retirement age is becoming more important. However, the prolongation of working lives cannot be implemented successfully without considering the ...
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Does pain deteriorate working life expectancy in aging workers? [PDF]
J Occup Health, 2016 ObjectivesMany aging workers wish to continue working as long as they can for a better life in the future. However, symptoms of pain are a key obstacle in the continuation of work among older workers. The impact of pain on work is understudied. Thus, we investigated the relationship between pain characteristics (total site and severity) and aging ...
Lee W, Hong K, Lim SS, Yoon JH.
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Lagging behind in health and work expectancies: Increasing disadvantage of individuals with lower educational level in Germany. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundMany governments increased the retirement age in response to population ageing. Against this backdrop, it remains unclear whether the development in healthy life years can keep pace with the increase in working life years and whether people ...
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Life-expectancy changes during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019–2021: estimates from Japan, a country with low pandemic impact [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic had a low impact on Japan in 2020, but the size of the epidemic increased considerably there in 2021. This study made a statistical analysis of life expectancy changes up to the end of 2021 in Japan. Objective We aimed to
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Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has impacted trends in US life expectancy.
Arun S. Hendi, Jessica Y. Ho
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The Lancet Public Health, 2020 Summary: Background: Retirement ages are rising in many countries to offset the challenges of population ageing, but people's capacity to work for more years in their later working life (>50 years) is unclear.
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