scholarly journals Understanding the Perspectives and Experiences of Employed Older People on Active Ageing in Their Later Working Life (Biographical Narrative Approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6916
Author(s):  
Yong-Lim You ◽  
Hyun-Suk Lee
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Prejudice

This thesis aims to understand the perspectives and experiences of older people regarding the concept of active ageing in their later working life with biographical narratives. This research adopted a biographical narrative interview for data collection. A total of 15 employed older people were interviewed by the researcher. The collected data were analysed using the biographical narrative analysis of Schütze (1983). The research findings are the following: in the first theme, the driving force to enable older people to choose active ageing in the workplace was their confidence in their work ability to include a challenging attitude at work. In the second theme, another driving force to enable older people to participate in economic activity that was considered was the individual workability of active older workers, including health rather than their chronological ageing in the labour market. However, in the third theme, research participants believed that the barrier of active ageing is a negative social prejudice on the working ability of older people. From this point of view, the research participants suggested that negative social prejudice for older workers should be overcome by active ageing experiences in age-friendly working environments as the fourth theme.

scholarly journals MAKING THE AGING EXPERIENCE WORTHWHILE: HOW SOCIAL INTERACTION CONTRIBUTES TO ACTIVE AGING

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S533-S533
Author(s):  
Daniel Doh ◽  
Kwadwo Adusei-Asante ◽  
Vicki Banham
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Older People ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
World Health ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

Abstract In most parts of the world, people are now living longer lives, which presents both opportunities and concerns over how to make the ageing process a worthwhile experience. The World Health Organisation’s Active Ageing model became a prominent global policy response since 2002 and has evolved into different country-level ageing policies. While a considerable volume of literature exists on active ageing – testing the validity of its various components, there is limited empirical evidence of how social interaction contributes to active ageing for older people and how it can be promoted through policy. In this paper, we examine social interaction and how it contributes to lived experiences of active ageing among a sample of 30 older Ghanaians living in Australia and Ghana. Our findings confirm the significance of social interaction for active ageing, and shows that social interaction creates a sense of purpose for living, which leads to the ability of the individual to build resilience, which mitigates anxieties and pains associated with ill health (especially for frail older people); enhances self-motivation for play and fun; empowers the individual to explore opportunities for continuous activity including leisure, and improves the general feeling of happiness resulting in active ageing – quality of life. The paper’s main argument is that social interaction presents potentials for improving the quality of life (active ageing) for older people and needs to be carefully considered in policy, research and practice.

scholarly journals Lingual Aspects of Mystical Narration in V. Shevchuk’s Novel “The Beginning of Horror”

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Florij Batsevych
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Unreliable Narrator ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Christian View ◽  
Flow Of Time ◽  
The Individual

In recent decades, the researchers of artistic stories have paid their attention to the narrative analysis of a set of weird texts of mystical and absurd content, works of “black humour”, fantastic (khymerna) prose created by a non-anthropic narrator or by an author in a changed state of consciousness. These texts serve the field of actualizing atypical and non-usual narrative structures, the sphere of meaningful changes within the bounds of narrative categories and, which is important, of forming special communicative senses of aesthetic nature. The basic problems of the linguistic analysis of “unnatural” stories are identifying the types of changes in the narration constituents, reasons of these changes and narrative categories (first of all, events, participants, objects, chronotope characteristics, points of view, moduses, modalities, etc.). The article analyses one of the texts of mystical content aiming at the revealing of some specificities of the structure and functioning of the so-called “unnatural artistic narrations”. The object of the research is V. Shevchuk’s novel “The Beginning of Horror”. The subject of the analysis is lingual means of the narrative structure formation, the author’s objectification of the mystical artistic sense and lingual “signals” of a reader’s perception of these senses. The most important semantic means of creating mystical atmosphere of the story are predicates that ascribe the names of their referents atypical dynamic and static features connected with the Christian view of the infernal world. It helps to form narrative events that root in weird situations, which cannot take place in reality. Non-dispositional nature of these situations correlates with the reference to the mystery that goes far beyond the bounds of a usual perceptive and psycho-mental background. Among the pragmatic means of creating mystical atmosphere of the main hero’s story as well as of the novel in general, we specify the individual inimitative perception of the flow of time and modality of “real unreality” formed by the role of an unreliable narrator and a vague point of view of the described event with its perceptive, ideological and time planes of objectification. Due to the increasing interest to various expressions of the esoteric, the increase of the number of artistic works of such content and growth of their popularity, we consider it topical to proceed in further investigations of lingual-narrative aspects of “unnatural” stories, in particular, the ones with the modus of mystical in them.

How Different is the Older Labour Market? Attitudes to Work and Retirement among Older People in Britain

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen McNair
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
The Uk

Governments are seeking strategies to extend working life, but with limited evidence on the attitudes to work, and motivation of workers over 50. This paper reports the findings of two national surveys which aimed to increase understanding of the attitudes to work of older people in the UK. They found that older people generally view work very positively, but that the forces which divide the labour market as a whole have an increasingly polarising effect as people grow older. The paper suggests that successful implementation of ‘extending working life’ policies will depend on a better understanding of the quality of work, of the diversity of older workers, and of the role of training.

scholarly journals Työssä jatkaminen ja eläkkeelle siirtyminen ikääntyvien työntekijöiden pohdinnoissa

Kuntoutus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Riitta-Liisa Kinni ◽  
Helena Taskinen ◽  
Elsa Paronen ◽  
Katja Pesonen ◽  
Sari Rissanen
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Individual Point ◽  
Membership Category ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organisational Level

Ikääntyvien työurien odotetaan pitenevän niin Suomessa kuin kansainvälisesti. Aikaisempi tutkimus on tarkastellut monipuolisesti työurien pitenemiseen yhteydessä olevia yksilö- ja organisaatiotason tekijöitä. Tässä artikkelissa kuvaamme jäsenkategorisoinnin analyysin keinoin, millaisina ikääntyvät työntekijät näkevät itsensä eläkkeelle jääjinä tai työssä jatkajina. Lisäksi tarkastelemme, näkyvätkö työkykyyn, terveyteen tai kuntoutukseen liittyvät teemat kategorisoinneissa. Tavoitteena on ymmärtää työelämässä jatkamiseen tai eläkkeelle siirtymiseen liittyviä tekijöitä yksilöiden näkökulmista. Aineistona oli 35 yli 40-vuotiaan työntekijän tai toimihenkilön haastattelua neljästä eri yrityksestä. Aineisto analysoitiin aineistolähtöisesti jäsenkategorisoinnin analyysillä. Aineistosta löytyi neljä tapaa järkeillä suhdetta työhön ja eläköitymiseen: leiväntienaajien, velvollisuudentuntoisten, tekemistä tarvitsevien ja työstä nauttivien. Nämä kategoriat sisältävät myös käsityksiä työkyvyn ja kuntoutuksen merkityksestä. Ainoastaan työstä nauttivat ovat kiinnostuneita jatkamaan työuraa eläkeiän jälkeen. Heille työn sisällöllä on suuri merkitys. Leiväntienaajille työllä on välineellinen merkitys toimeentulon lähteenä – jonka myös lottovoitto toisi. Velvollisuudentuntoisille työelämässä pysyminen asetettuun eläkeikärajaan saakka näyttäytyy itsestäänselvyytenä. Tekemistä tarvitsevilla taas esimerkiksi omaisten hoivaaminen voisi korvata työelämän.  Eri kategorioissa tehdään päätöksiä työssä jatkamisesta erilaisin perustein. Kaikissa kategorioissa tuotiin kuitenkin esille terveyden, työssä jaksamisen ja työkyvyn merkitys. Tutkimuksessa on tärkeä keskittyä arvioimaan erilaisten kannusteiden merkitystä työssä jatkamiselle erilaisissa ryhmissä. Jaksamisen tukemiseen sekä työkyvyn ylläpitoon ja parantamiseen tarvitaan henkilökohtaistettuja ratkaisuja. Abstract Ageing employees reasoning work and retirement Working careers of ageing employees are expected to extend in Finland, as well as internationally. Previous research has revealed various factors on individual and organisational level that have an impact on longer working careers. This article describes how ageing employees see themselves as retiring or continuing at work by the means of category analysis. It also explores if the themes of work ability, health or rehabilitation are found in categorisations. The aim of the study is to understand factors related to retiring or continuing work from the individual point of view.  The data consists of 35 interviews of employees 40 years of age or above in four enterprises.  Data were analysed data-driven by membership category analysis. Four different ways to reason one’s attitude to work and retirement were found:  those of breadwinners, dutiful ones, those who need activities and those who enjoy working. These categories also include perceptions on the significance of an ability to work and rehabilitation. Only those who enjoy working are interested to continue in working life beyond their retirement age. The content and meaning of work is very important to them. To a breadwinner work is instrumental in earning one’s living – which would also be fulfilled by winning in lottery. Dutiful ones think it is self-evident to stay in working life until the institutional retirement age but not beyond. Those who need activities could compensate paid work for caring.  People in different categories make decisions on continuing in working life on different grounds. However, the significance of health, coping at work and ability to work were mentioned as decisive factors in all categories. It is suggested that it is important to focus on evaluating the meaning of incentives for continuing work in different groups. In addition, personalised solutions are needed in supporting workers to cope at work and also in maintaining and improving their working ability.  Keywords: continuing at work, retirement, vocational rehabilitation, membership category analysis

Longer working lives – what do they mean in practice – a case of the Baltic countries

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Aidukaite ◽  
Inga Blaziene
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The Baltic

PurposeThe article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of older people's situation in the labour market in three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Three Nordic countries are taken as a reference point to compare the countries in order to better understand the situation from a comparative point of view. The article asks the questions: Does a longer working life for older people contribute to their better economic situation? How satisfied are they with a longer working life and their working conditions? Do they experience any discrimination in the labour market because of their age?Design/methodology/approachIn order to understand the situation of older people in the labour market, the authors employ welfare state models and the Active Ageing Index. The welfare state models help us to understand the context in which the working life of older people is taking place. The Active Ageing Index helps to gain a better understanding of the employment domain of active ageing. The analysis is based on several Europe-wide data sources: statistics on earnings from Eurostat database, information on income, job prospects, occupational safety and health, training, working life perspectives from the European Working Conditions Survey as well as a special survey, conducted by the authors, of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian residents aged 50 years and older.FindingsAnalysis conducted reveals that in the Baltic countries older employees, although actively participating in the labour market, face unfavourable material, physical and psychological situation in the labour market more frequently than their younger colleagues. The findings show that the most important factors influencing older employees' decision to stay longer in the labour market in the Baltic countries are linked mostly to welfare state-related issues, i.e. financial benefits, healthcare, possibility to reconcile work and family obligations. These welfare state-related issues are even more important for those who are going to stay longer in the labour market after reaching the retirement age.Originality/valueThis article contributes to a better understanding of older (50+) people's situation in the labour market. It suggests that, while the increasing employment of older people increases the Active Ageing Index and is generally viewed positively, in some countries with less developed welfare states high employment rates of older employees, although providing them with an additional means of livelihood, do not ensure a higher quality of life and, on the contrary, act as a factor reducing the quality of work and, at the same time, the quality of life.

Resource Passageways and Caravans: A Multi-level, Multi-disciplinary Review of the Antecedents of Resources over the Lifespan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Sarandopoulos ◽  
Prashant Bordia
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Older Worker ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Resources are vital for older worker effectiveness and well-being, yet limited attention has been paid to the antecedents of resources. Drawing together the rich cross-disciplinary literature on resources, and through the lens of cumulative disadvantage and resource passageways, we review the individual, organizational, and institutional factors that influence the resources available to people in late working life. The review provides a more nuanced perspective on older workers as agentic actors. We highlight how agency can be constrained via a person’s resources, which are shaped by structural influences. Knowledge of structural influences on resources is important for understanding the experiences of older workers and their continued effectiveness in the work domain. We outline avenues for future research on resources and aging at work that incorporates these multi-level influences.

In line or at odds with active ageing policies? Exploring patterns of retirement preferences in Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1529-1556 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIRK HOFÄCKER
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Work Continuation ◽  
Career Employment

ABSTRACTFaced with demographic ageing, European policy makers since the mid-1990s have taken a turn from fostering early retirement to promoting longer working life by reducing early exit incentives and facilitating work continuation. However, it remains open whether these reforms are yet reflected in the retirement plans and preferences of future pensioners’ cohorts. Using most recent data on desired retirement ages from the fifth wave of the European Social Survey (2010/11 wave), this paper empirically investigates how far current policy reforms are in line with the retirement age preferences of older workers aged 45 and over. Results show that older workers approaching retirement ages still intend to retire before the politically envisioned age of 65, and in many cases also before nationally defined standard retirement ages. Despite visible progress in implementing active ageing measures, the challenge of motivating older workers to continue working until or even beyond retirement ages thus remains. At the same time, there are regime-specific problem groups that face difficulties in adjusting to the active ageing paradigm of longer working life. Especially in countries with little employment support, those with unstable work careers, employment interruptions and few financial resources are at a high risk of being crowded out from late career employment and thus from the possibility of ensuring a decent standard of living in old age.

scholarly journals Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement

2022 ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Ewa Wikström ◽  
Karin Allard ◽  
Rebecka Arman ◽  
Roy Liff ◽  
Daniel Seldén ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Retirement System ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Systematic Knowledge

AbstractThroughout the industrialised world, societies are ageing. These demographic changes have created a political and societal focus on an extended working life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about how such changes can be successfully implemented within organisations. In this chapter, we discuss this lacuna and specifically focus on organisational capability. We highlight workplace conditions and practices that may inhibit or promote the retention of workers beyond the previous norm for retirement.The novelty of an organisational capability approach is that it highlights workplace conditions that enable older people to use their abilities to perform acts of value and to achieve a better quality of life and greater participation in society. Workplace resources, capabilities and functions form a dynamic pattern. Factors that influence the work abilities of older workers are related in complex interactions and not merely in the format of simple cause and effect.When looking at retirement from the perspective of older workers, we have focused on aspects such as the individual’s ability to control the retirement process. Central to Sen’s idea is that individuals have different conversion factors, which means that, even though two individuals may have access to the same resources, they do not necessarily have the capability to enjoy the same functions. For example, the probability that an older person will remain employed will partially depend on his or her health, human capital and type of job. But two seemingly similar individuals can nevertheless have very different chances of remaining employed because their employer has implemented very different age management policies, or simply because they have different attitudes towards older workers. Since organisational capability makes it possible to focus on the interaction between the individual’s resources and preferences and the opportunity structure existing at the workplace (meso level) and embodied in the retirement system (macro level), much of the discussion and many of the policies and practices concerning older people can be related to the concept of capabilities.

scholarly journals The problems of older workforce in working life: The case of KirklareliYaşlı işgücünün çalışma hayatındaki sorunları: Kırklareli ili örneği

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aykut Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Average Life Expectancy ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Negative Impacts

Significant decrease in the rate of population growth across the world and the rise in the average life expectancy in recent years has caused and increase in the rate of elderly in general population and has drawn attention to demographic ageing process in the world.Employment of the workforce at an advanced age will provide some development in the economic apportinuties of them and will increase their participation in social and cultural fields. Therefore discussing elderly indivudial’s problems in working life is important especially to produce sensible and lasting solutions for active ageing and to be able to deal with many negative consequences caused by demographic transition in the final stage.The study intented to the descriptive aim as prospective was carried out to determine the problems of older workers in Kirklareli. In the study random sampling method is used to code data statistical analysis is made by using SPSS 13 Programme.According to the concequences of the study, it was determined that 67% of employers don’t know using tecnology, 47% of them prefer young employees for the hard work and prefer older employees for the light work. Also it was determined that 67% of the employees experience physical problems, 87% of the employees complain with negative impacts of stress to their working quality, 73% of them think that they are exposed to the aged discrimination and 34% of them experience chronic fatigue. ÖzetSon dönemlerde dünyada görülen nüfus artış hızındaki önemli azalış ve ortalama yaşam beklentisindeki yükseliş, genel nüfus içindeki yaşlı nüfus oranının artmasına neden olmakta ve dünyadaki demografik yaşlanma sürecine dikkati çekmektedir. İleri yaş işgücünün istihdamı, söz konusu kesimin ekonomik imkânlarını geliştirmenin yanında, onların sosyal ve kültürel alanlara da katılımlarını arttıracaktır.Tanımlayıcı amaca yönelik prospektif olarak gerçekleşen çalışma; Kırklareli İli yaşlı işgücünün sorunlarını belirlemek amacıyla gerçekleştirildi. Olasılıksız örnekleme yöntemlerinden gelişigüzel örnekleme yöntemiyle toplanan veriler kodlanarak, very analizi SPSS 13 paket programında gerçekleştirildi.Çalışma sonucunda, işverene özgü; teknoloji kullanımının bilinmediği (% 67) ve işverenlerin % 47’sinin ağır iş yükü olan işlerde genç yaş grubunu; hafif derece işlerde ise ileri yaş grubunu istihdam etmek istedikleri belirlendi.İşçi açısından bakıldığında ise; % 67’sinin fiziksel rahatsızlık yaşadığı;  iş yerinde yaşanan psikolojik gerilimin-stresin işçilerin % 87’sine negative yönde etkilediği, çalışma kalitesini ve iş doyumunu düşürdüğü; katılımcıların % 73’ünün yaşa bağlı ayrımcılığa maruz kaldığını düşündüğü ve %34’ünün kronik yorgunluk yaşadığı görüldü. 

scholarly journals From psychological to digital disengagement: exploring the link between ageism and the ‘grey digital divide’

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Lagacé ◽  
Houssein Charmarkeh ◽  
Radamis Zaky ◽  
Najat Firzly
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Great Proportion ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Individual

<p>The need for digital literacy is apparent in today’s workplace, driven by strong pressures for constant technological innovation. Previous studies have shown that although older workers make up (and will make up) a great proportion of the workforce, there persists an age-based digital divide in the workplace; and the outcome of such divide is quite negative: at the individual level, older workers feel they’re being marginalized and as such, become dissatisfied and disengage from their workplace; at the organizational level, a pool of skills and expertise is lost as a result of the older worker’s disengagement, putting at risk effective knowledge transfer and mentoring process. Hence, the importance of a deeper understanding of the contextual factors that may feed the <strong>‘</strong>grey digital divide<strong>’ </strong>in the workplace. The goal of this paper is to address such factors moving beyond the ageist claim that a worker’s chronological age is the driving force behind the <strong>‘</strong>grey digital divide<strong>’</strong>.</p>

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