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'Older workers', workplace training and better quality working lives
 — can a Work Ability approach help?
Author(s)Tony Maltby
Journal titleInternational Journal of Education and Ageing, vol 1, no 2, December 2010
PublisherAssociation for Education & Ageing - AEA, Leicester, December 2010
Pagespp 141-152
SourceInstitute of Lifelong Learning, Leicester University, 128 Regent Road, Leicester, LE1 7PA.
KeywordsEmployment of older people ; Training [elderly workers] ; Health [elderly] ; Well being ; Social policy.
AnnotationThis paper follows Tikkanan's (2008) lead in arguing for an integrated and holistic approach to two distinct and parallel discourses in policy and research, namely on 'older workers' and lifelong learning. It suggests that the concept of Work Ability, first introduced in Finland more than 30 years ago, should be adopted within UK policymaking as a method to improve older people's employability, health and well-being in the workplace. Further, such an approach can act as a lever to broadening and increasing the participation in workplace training and other forms of learning for 'older workers'. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-121005204 A
ClassmarkGC: GF: CC: D:F:5HH: TM2

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