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The aging workforce: implications for organizations
1Department of Health and Fitness, American University, Washington, D.C. 20016.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
Older workers may perform as well as or better than younger workers. Their accumulated knowledge, skills, and experiences, as well as their low absenteeism, turnover, and accident rates, makes them valuable employees. This chapter examines both the positive and negative effects of an aging workforce. A variety of issues regarding demographic trends, ageism, stereotyping of the older worker, appropriate health promotion strategies, elder care, and health care costs are addressed.