A Global View on the Effects of Work on Health in Later Life

... on the association between work on the one and physical, mental, and cognitive health in later life on the other. Results and Implications: Globally, both is true: work supports healthy aging and jeopordizes it. We draw implications for policymaking in terms of social protection, HR policies, and older employee...

... on Aging 10.13039/100000049 National Institutes of Health 10.13039/100000002 R01AG026526 With the rapid aging of the global population comes new opportunities to better understand aspects of later life that have remained largely invisible. One such area is sexuality, with the intersections...

...: This was the largest study to date of LGBT older adults to identify life events related to identity development, work, and kin relationships and their associations with health and quality of life (QOL). Using latent profile analysis (LPA), clusters of life events were identified and associations between life event...

..., Futterman, Gilewski, & Peterson, 1991; ent. Most of these investigations have studied Van Zandt et al., 1989). Such a pattern was also bereaved adults of varying ages and the results echo present for other dimensions of mental health, with those reported above for later life parental bereave...

... spouses. Thus, extending our previous work to husbands’ and wives’ physical pain will provide an investigation of their pain trajectories, including potential heterogeneous trajectory classes, and differential and transactional associations with socioeconomic characteristics and later-life health outcomes...

... the representations of dementia and caregiving in the fourth age as depicted in Erica Jong’s later-life work. It shows how the experience of parental care leads to the discovery of new ways of human interaction and expressions of personhood. Research Design and Methods Framed within literary–cultural age studies...

... to it are highly subjective, making attitudes toward growing older diverse and complex ( Ayalon and Tesch-Römer, 2018 ; Westerhof et al., 2014 ). Both positive and negative views of later life exist. On the positive side, later life is often celebrated as a time of fulfillment ( Dudley et al., 2020 ; Wang, 2013...

... and consequences of every- hearing impairment and older adults' performance on day competence in later life. In comparison, relatively a set of Observed Tasks of Daily Living (OTDL). Inter- little is known about the components and mechanisms estingly, in this study, health factors did not affect of elderly...

... domain of depressive symptoms may be offset by increasing social activities. The manifestation of depressive symptoms in later life is complex. By applying factor analytic work with the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale, Radloff (1997) noted that depressive symptoms comprise...

... Health Perspectives , 113 , 2001 – 2002 . doi: 10.1289/ehp.113-a290 Gott M. , & Hinchliff S . ( 2003 ). How important is sex in later life? The views of older people . Social Science and Medicine , 56 , 1617 – 1628...

... have dimensions of well-being. relatively little bearing on whether the whole of one's It has not been the intent of this paper to contrib- life is viewed as rewarding. Less global and more ute "new" knowledge as such. The elements of the contemporary or transitory measures of well-being, model...

... in the outcome across subpopulations. Dual functionality is a more wholistic measure of health than life expectancy and bears a resemblance to layperson views of desirable later years. The concept is positioned on the “big two” types of function. Others may want to integrate additional criteria to create a more...

... by work patterns established earlier in life. Many (1979) and Krause (1994) may be fruitfully applied to women in the current cohort of elderly people were the study of welfare participation and self-esteem in either full-time homemakers for most of their adult later life. More specifically, it would...

... age, and increasing again in later life. The effects of loneliness are argued to be persistent and cumulative over time, such that chronic loneliness yields long-term health risks ( Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010 ). Loneliness is prevalent among older adults in China, with estimates as high as 50...

... and Sexuality in Later Life is a useful book for classes on gerontology, human lifespan, disability studies, sexuality and gender studies, public health, health policy, and HIV at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. The chapters are accessible and rigorous, poignantly exploring their respective...

... of this literature). In alcohol use may offset the impact of less potent its simplest form, the tension-reduction hypothesis events but fail to reduce the effects of major life rests on two postulates: (1) alcohol reduces the nox- stressors. This work is compelling because it begins ious effects of stress...

... a prominent role in evaluating human imaginative capacity in relation to aging. There is a growing number of studies on later-life creativity and its influence on the active engagement, well-being, social inclusion, and working lives, as well as the physical and mental health of older adults ( Dunphy et al...

..., & Chu, 2014 ; Klein et al., 2013 ) also pointed to the effects of older persons’ cultural backgrounds on their attitudes towards robots. Cross-cultural studies of HRI in later life are scarce, however, and the few multinational studies included in this review (e.g., Jenkins & Draper, 2015...

... functioning. Four basic postulates about schizophrenia into later life as well as six themes for future research emerge from the review. Aging Psychopathology Organic factors Social functioning Copyright 7990 by Studies of schizophrenia into later life may provide many of the keys...

... factors associated with later-life loneliness such as lack or loss of partner, economic limitations, and poor health ( Fokkema, De Jong Gierveld, & Dykstra, 2012 ; Hansen & Slagsvold, 2015 ; Sundström, Fransson, Malmberg, & Davey, 2009 ; Yang & Victor, 2011 ). Nevertheless...