The reduction in one's capability to complete work to the best of their ability. Job dissatisfaction, stress, anxiety, depression, along with self-esteem/efficacy issues lead to a decrease in work ability. Ill-health factors also play a role in decreasing work ability.


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The increasing desire to retain older workers past legal retirement age due to two main factors:
- Increasing lifespans, resulting in heavier burdens on younger workers to support the retired workers
- A decreasing support ratio (working people per retired person)

Increasing Retirement Age

Griffiths, A. (1999). Work Design and Management - The Older Worker. Experimental Aging Research, 25(4), 411–420. https://doi.org/10.1080/036107399243887

Work Design and Management- The Older Worker

Industrial Organizational research done within specific fields of work, instead of in a broad area (i.e. Instead of surveying all employees 65+, survey all employees 65+ who work in finance, and are investment analysts).  


Contextual Research

Decreasing Work Ability

Industrial-Organizational models that investigate factors that typically are affected by age. 
Instead of looking for issues that all employees 18+ may deal with, life span models would investigate age-specific troubles.


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