Abstract
A number of different issues of aging affect work organizations. Workers age in the usual sense of biological, psychological, and social aging. Workers age in an organizational sense resulting in a need for training and growth. Updating may prevent or minimize obsolescence. Human factors approaches can support adult and older adult workers through designing or redesigning a work situation in a way sensitive to the physical and cognitive demands of a job. Demands on individual workers can change in middle age and older adulthood as caregiving demands of family members must be balanced with work.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 7-19 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | The Journal of Applied Gerontology |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gerontology
- Geriatrics and Gerontology