Main description:

There are individual and professional factors that have the greatest impact on the preservation of work ability for people of advanced age, and people with chronic health issues and disabilities. This text examines the demographic trends in the population and shows that proper functioning in their lives is only possible if people are provided with appropriate psychosocial and physical working conditions. This publication discusses physiological changes that occur with age and influence work performance. It presents the concept of applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in order to assess the work ability of people with disabilities. It shows, using examples and case studies, that practical activities aimed at appropriate working conditions for people of advanced age, and people with health issues and disabilities, will have excellent work ability.

Features

Presents a comprehensive approach to workplace tolerance for people with health issues

Offers an innovated in-depth evaluation of the Work Ability Index (WAI)

Presents applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to access the work ability of people with disabilities

Outlines actions that should be taken to maintain work ability for people of advanced age or with disabilities

Provides real case studies and analysis.

"Demographic changes, especially those related to aging, belong to the main changes occurring in the contemporary working environment. Thus, preserving work ability in the older population as well as [populations with] health concerns are among the most important challenges of today. Accordingly, the monograph fits into the most recent issues of [this] public health area, focusing on work ability in populations at risk of social exclusion, also occupational exclusion. These are older people, persons with chronic diseases and those with different types of disabilities.
In my opinion, highlighting the problem of work ability in the context of aging by the authors, in such a broad understanding, is extremely valuable and useful and the presented research outcome is an authentic and very much expected contribution to the discussion on this issue. The topic has been thoroughly presented, which undoubtedly results from the interdisciplinarity of the group of authors including specialists in work physiology, physicians and physiotherapists. The monograph provides a very measurable and reliable knowledge in this field. Combining the theory with the presentation of the authors' research outcomes is an unquestionable advantage of the monograph...".
-Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland

Contents:

PART I General Issues

Chapter 1 Work Ability Assessment: An Important Element of Workers

Health Protection...................................................................................

Joanna Bugajska and Teresa Makowiec-Dabrowska

Chapter 2 Work Ability Index as a Tool of Assessment of the Possibilities

to Perform Work....................................................................................

Teresa Makowiec-Dabrowska and Joanna Bugajska

Chapter 3 Dynamics of Changes in Work Ability According to the Type of

Work, Age and Gender of Employees - Results of Research.............

Joanna Bugajska, Lukasz Baka, and Lukasz Kapica

Chapter 4 Work Ability Index and Its Relationships to Factors

Characterizing Work, Non-professional Loads and Individual

Factors - Results of Research.............................................................

Teresa Makowiec-Dabrowska

PART II Work Ability and Age

Chapter 5 Age-Related Physiological Changes Influencing Work Ability..........

Tomasz Kostka and Joanna Kostka

Chapter 6 Activities for Supporting Work Ability of Ageing Workers..............

Joanna Kostka and Tomasz Kostka

Chapter 7 Physical and Psychosocial Work Demand Changes with Age..........

Joanna Bugajska and Teresa Makowiec-Dabrowska

Chapter 8 Work Ability in Older Women Working in Retail Sector -

Results of Research...........................................................................

Elzbieta Lastowiecka-Moras

Chapter 9 Work Ability among Male Workers in Different Ages - Results

of Research........................................................................................

Marzena Malinska

PART III Work Ability and Chronic Diseases

Chapter 10 Work Ability and Its Relationship to Sense of Coherence among

Workers with Chronic Diseases - Results of Research....................

Joanna Bugajska and Maria Widerszal-Bazyl

Chapter 11 Adjustment of Work Organization and Working Conditions

to the Needs of Persons with Chronic Diseases - Results

of Research......................................................................................

Karolina Pawlowska-Cyprysiak, Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupinska,

and Joanna Bugajska

Chapter 12 Work Ability in Workers with Mental Diseases...............................

Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz

Chapter 13 Activities Supporting Work Ability in Workers with

Chronic Diseases...............................................................................

Joanna Bugajska

PART IV Work Ability and Disabilities

Chapter 14 Model of Work Ability Assessment Using ICF.................................

Joanna Bugajska, Andrzej Najmiec, and Karol Pawlak

Chapter 15 Conditions Impacting on Work Ability in People with Motor

Disabilities - Results of Research.....................................................

Karolina Pawlowska-Cyprysiak

Index.......................................................................................................................