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Extending working lives?
— employability, work ability and better quality working lives | | Author(s) | Tony Maltby |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 10. Pt 3, July 2011 |
| Pages | pp 299-308 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Keywords | Labour economics ; Employment of older people ; Well being ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Faced with a changing economic and demographic outlook, this article focuses upon UK practice and presents an approach that has been used across continental Europe for many years. The central argument is that improving the quality of life of older adults is not simply and only about a better `work-life balance' but the adoption of a holistic approach to worker well-being and health, broadly defined at the level of the enterprise. The article provides a short review of existing policy and gives a distinction between employability and Work Ability. It then suggests that the Work Ability approach used for over 30 years in Finland be trialled in the UK and that the Government provide fiscal incentives for UK enterprises to adopt and implement such preventative approaches within a broader age management structure. Argues that Europeans are likely to work to a more advanced age in future than in the immediate past. It is time to focus upon the positive contributions that older people can and do make to society. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-111011001 A |
| Classmark | WH: GC: D:F:5HH: TM2 |
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