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- Björklund Carlstedt, Anita, 1953-, et al.
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Äldre i arbetslivet
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Ingår i: Hälsa och aktivitet i vardagen – ur ett arbetsterapeutiskt perspektiv. - Nacka : Sveriges Arbetsterapeuter. - 9789187837791 ; , s. 186-196
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- Hovbrandt, Pia, et al.
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Occupational balance as described by older workers over the age of 65
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Ingår i: Journal of Occupational Science. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1442-7591 .- 2158-1576. ; 26:1, s. 40-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Occupational balance promotes health, knowledge about occupational balance among older workers is important. This qualitative study aimed to describe occupational balance among older workers in Sweden. Six focus groups and two individual interviews were conducted with 26 workers, aged 65 years and older. The findings showed that drawing on abilities and resources, a harmonious mix of occupations, as well as congruence with values and personal meaning contributed to the participants’ occupational balance. From a work perspective, organizational factors such as support from managers and having the freedom to influence work tasks, as well as work time, also contributed to occupational balance. The participants changed their occupational pattern to achieve a more harmonious mix of occupations. This change was based on values and experience derived through the meaning of occupations, and on abilities and resources. Enabling older people to achieve occupational balance and promoting health may contribute to possibilities for an extended working life and active ageing.
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- Hovbrandt, Pia
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Older people's occupations. A life with and without work. : A life with and without work
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction: The demographic changes with population ageing and a rapidly growing share of very old peoplewill put an increasing pressure on the health and social care system. In order to both restrict early retirement and force people to extend their working life reforms are changing pension systems in many European countries. Besides that older people have to extend their working life it is important to optimize opportunities for valued occupations and a variation of occupations that contributes to health for older people. However, how work may contribute to occupational engagement among older people also in a long-term perspective are scarcely studied. Aims: The overall aim of the thesis was to deepen the knowledge about engagement in occupations among people from the age of 55 to very old age.Methods: Cross sectional and longitudinal cohort designs were used in this thesis. Studies I and II were based on a purposeful selection of participants from three different work domains: construction and technical companies and community elderly care sector (n=24,Study I; n=26, Study II). In Study III respondents from the Scania Public Health Cohort age 55 and over working at least 10 h/week at baseline and not working at follow- up were included (n=1098). Study IV is based on a strategically selection of participants from ENABLE- AGE Survey study, all beyond age 80 (n=21). Data was collected through focus groups (Studies I- II), individual interviews (Studies II and IV), and a postal questionnaire (Study III).Results: The findings showed that work was considered important and valuable especially with regard to how challenging work tasks were, the possibilities for inclusion in a team of colleagues and the chances for better personal finances (Study I). Organizational factors such as possibilities to influence work tasks, working time and skills development supports the willingness for an extended working life (Study I). Based on values and personal meaning of occupations the participants in Study II had changed their occupational pattern for a more harmonious mix of occupations which contributed to experience of occupational balance. Multivariate logistic regression in Study III showed that jobs with high control, seem to predict high social participation, also after cessation of employment. The results also suggest that high social participation during working life is a predictor of high social participation in a long-term perspective (Study III). A wish to keep on doing as before was evident in Study IV but personal as well as environmental barriers made it difficult especially social participation. Much work in working life without time for leisure seemed to lead to few interest also in very old age.Conclusions: A supportive work environment with possibilities for employees to participate in decision making is beneficial also after retirement. A sustainable working life is a prerequisite for a higher retirement age and may support people to work at least until retirement age and maybe even longer.
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- Hovbrandt, Pia, et al.
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Prerequisites and driving forces behind an extended working life among older workers
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1103-8128 .- 1651-2014. ; 26:3, s. 171-183
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Reforms are changing pension systems in many European countries, in order to both restrict early retirement and force people to extend their working life. From occupational therapy and occupational science perspectives, studies focusing on aspects of working life that motivate the older worker is urgent. Aim: The aim was to describe incentives behind an extended working life among people over age 65. Method: Focus group methodology was used, with participants ages 66–71, from varying work fields: construction and technical companies and the municipal elderly care sector. Findings: Work was considered important and valuable to the degree of how challenging work was, the possibilities for inclusion in a team of colleagues and the chances for better personal finances. Amongst all, the participants expressed a feeling of a strengthened identity by being challenged and having the opportunity to manage working tasks. Conclusion: The finding showed the actual reasons behind an extended working life among older workers. However, a risk of rising social inequity may appear with increased working life if older people are forced to extend their working life due to a difficult financial situation as a pensioner. A variety of retirement options and initiatives in order to support older workers are justified.
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- Hovbrandt, Pia, et al.
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Psychosocial working conditions and social participation. A 10-year follow-up of senior workers.
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1660-4601. ; 18:17, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social participation is important for health, and it is well known that high strain jobs impact negatively on mental and physical health. However, knowledge about the impact of psychosocial working conditions on social participation from a long-term perspective is lacking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between different job types and social participation from a long-term perspective. A comprehensive public health questionnaire “The Scania Public Health Survey”, was used, and psychosocial working conditions were measured with a Swedish translation of the Job Content Questionnaire. Based on data from 1098 working respondents aged 55 at baseline and a 10-year follow-up when the respondents were not working, the analyses revealed that social participation varied by job type. Jobs with high decision latitude, as in active and relaxed jobs, seem to predict high social participation, even after cessation of employment. Besides that, the result suggests that high social participation during working life is a predictor of high social participation from a long-term perspective which promotes healthy aging. Incentives for working longer are strongly related to good working conditions. A supportive work environment with possibilities for employees to participate in decision making, i.e., high control, is vital for a sustainable working life. This may contribute to an extended working life and may also support social participation prior to retirement as well as after retirement and thus to healthy aging.
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- Hovbrandt, Pia, et al.
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Very old people´s experience of occupational performance outside the home; : Possibilities and limitations
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Ingår i: Scand J Occup Ther. - : Informa UK Limited. ; 14:2, s. 77-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To support occupations outside the home for older people with functional limitations it is important to understand how the person, environment, and occupations influence performance. Therefore the purpose of this study was to describe how very old people experience occupational performance outside the home. Twenty-one single-living, very old persons, above 80 years, were strategically selected and interviewed. A phenomenographic approach was used for this study and the interviews were analyzed using contextual analysis. The findings showed a variation in the experience of occupational performance described in three referential aspects: keeping on doing as before, drawing on available resources, and living in constrained circumstances. Referring to everyday occupations the participants described how they continued to do what they had done before, but decline in functional capacity made it more difficult to overcome environmental barriers. They also described how they sometimes could put functional limitations aside and use their utmost capacity to reach their goals. When they could not do that any more, they had to find possibilities for occupations close to home. In order to support very old people's occupational performance outside the home, outdoor mobility has to be facilitated, including the design of the physical environment as well as possibilities for social interaction.
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