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Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work

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Editors:
  1. Sara J. Czaja

    1. Center on Aging and Behavioral Research, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA

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  2. Joseph Sharit

    1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, USA

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  3. Jacquelyn B. James

    1. Center on Aging and Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

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  • Addresses a topic that is of high social and economic relevance in the United States and other countries throughout the world
  • Includes a range of topics not typically covered in books on aging and work, such as: work and family caregiving, teamwork, and technology
  • Addresses several policy issues that are important to current and future generations of aging workers
  • Features authors who represent a variety of disciplines and perspectives and are renowned in their respective fields

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Current Employment Patterns and Demographics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Setting the Stage: Workplace and Demographic Trends

      • Sara J. Czaja
      Pages 3-11

    3. Workplace Aging and Jobs in the Twenty-First Century

      • Margaret E. Beier, W. Jackeline Torres, Daniel J. Beal
      Pages 13-32

    4. Leveraging Aging Workforce and Age Diversity to Achieve Organizational Goals: A Human Resource Management Perspective

      • Ariane Froidevaux, Valeria Alterman, Mo Wang
      Pages 33-58

    5. Integrating the German and US Perspective on Organizational Practices for Later Life Work: The Later Life Work Index

      • Max R. Wilckens, Anne M. Wöhrmann, Caitlin Adams, Jürgen Deller, Ruth Finkelstein
      Pages 59-79

  4. Work Performance Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. A Human Factors Engineering Perspective to Aging and Work

      • Joseph Sharit
      Pages 191-218

    3. Work Motivation and Employment Goals in Later Adulthood

      • Ruth Kanfer, Keaton A. Fletcher
      Pages 219-241

    4. Can Acquired Skill and Technology Mitigate Age-Related Declines in Learning Rate?

      • Neil Charness
      Pages 243-257

    5. Training the Older Workers: Pathways and Pitfalls

      • Harvey L. Sterns, Diane M. Spokus
      Pages 259-278

  5. Trends in Jobs and Work Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. How Do Employers Respond to an Aging Workforce? Evidence from Surveys Among Employers, 2009–2017

      • Jaap Oude Mulders, Kène Henkens, Hendrik P. van Dalen
      Pages 281-296

    3. A Narrative Review: Understanding How Employment Context Influences the Occupational Health and Well-Being of Older Workers in Low-Wage Jobs

      • Jennifer E. Swanberg, Lily Scheindlin, Gail Betz, Aya Zouhri
      Pages 297-317
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About this book

This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations. The authors describe current and emerging topics related to work and aging adults such as working in teams, the increasing diversity of the labor force, work and caregiving, the implications of technology for an aging workforce, and health and wellness issues. The authorship is international; the authors are renowned for their respective work in the topical areas and represent a broad range of disciplines within academia, as well as offer perspectives from government and policy.

Jobs, organizations, the labor market, and the workforce are experiencing dramatic change. Workers of all ages, including older workers, need to interact with the wide variety of ubiquitous technologies that are reshaping work processes, job content, work settings, communication strategies, and the delivery of training, and this book aims to update readers on the particular issues facing today’s aging adults in the workplace.

The chapters’ broad and inclusive scope encompasses:

  • Workplace aging and jobs in the 21st century
  • The retirement income security outlook for older workers
  • Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections
  • Older workers and the contemporary labor market
  • The role of aging, age diversity, and age heterogeneity within teams
  • The intersection of family caregiving and work

Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work is relevant to a broad audience of academic researchers, practitioners, and students in psychology, sociology, management, engineering (industrial and human factors), the health sciences, gerontology/geriatrics, and public health. It is also a useful resource for government and policy leaders, as well as workers and managers in the public and private sectors.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Center on Aging and Behavioral Research, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA

    Sara J. Czaja

  • Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, Miami, USA

    Joseph Sharit

  • Center on Aging and Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

    Jacquelyn B. James

About the editors

Sara J. Czaja, PhD, is Director at the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, New York, USA.

Joseph Sharit, PhD, is Research Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Professor (secondary appointment) in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Anesthesiology at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, USA.

Jacquelyn B. James, PhD, is Co-Director of the Center on Aging and Work and Research Professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.






Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Current and Emerging Trends in Aging and Work

  • Editors: Sara J. Czaja, Joseph Sharit, Jacquelyn B. James

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24135-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24134-6Published: 24 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24137-7Published: 24 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24135-3Published: 13 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 463

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Aging, Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine

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