Main description:

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.

Contents:

Section 1: Current Employment Patterns and Demographics
Chapter 1. Demographics of Older Workers: Sara J. Czaja
Chapter 2. Workplace Aging and Jobs in the 21st Century: Margaret Beier
Chapter 3. Leveraging Ageing Workforce and Age Diversity to Achieve Organizational Goals: A Human Resource Management Perspective: Mo Wang
Chapter 4. Silver Work Index: Merging the German and the U.S. Perspectives: Jurgen Deller

Section 2: Policy Issues and An Aging Workforce
Chapter 5: Taking a New Look at Older Workers & Age Discrimination: Cathy Ventrell-Monsees
Chapter 6: Extended Working Lives: Feasible & Desirable for All? David Lain
Chapter 7: The Retirement Income Security Outlook for Older Workers: Causes for Concern and Reasons for Optimism: Kevin Cahill
Chapter 8: Programs and Policies to Support Older Workers: Richard Johnson
Chapter 9. Employment Discrimination Against Older Women & the Ineffectiveness of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act: Patrick Button

Section 3: Work Performance Issues
Chapter 10. A Human Factors Engineering Perspective to Aging and Work: Joseph Sharit
Chapter 11. Work Motivation and Employment Goals in Later Adulthood: Ruth Kanfer
Chapter 12. Older Adults and Skill Acquisition: Neil Charness
Chapter 13. Training Older Workers: Pathways and Pitfalls: Harvey Sterns

Section 4: Trends in Jobs and Work Patterns
Chapter 14. Preferred Retirement Styles: Continuity or Change? Kene Henkens
Chapter 15. Older Workers Employed in Low-Wage Jobs: The State of Knowledge and Setting a Research Agenda: Jennifer Swanberg
Chapter 16. Insights from the Science of Teamwork: What Matters in Practice: Eduardo Salas
Chapter 17. Difficult Adjustments: Older Workers and the Contemporary Labor Market: Karl Van Horn
Chapter 18. All the Live-Long Day: The New Face of Retirement: Jacquelyn James

Section 5: Health and Wellness Issues
Chapter 19. Balancing Work and Caregiving: Richard Schulz
Chapter 20. Predictors of Disability Among Older Workers: Risk Factors and the Prospects for Prevention and Control: Robert Wallace
Chapter 21. Creating Age-Friendly Workplaces: An Occupational Health Perspective: Jim Grosch