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- Bjursell, Cecilia, 1970-, et al.
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Education level explains participation in work and education later in life
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Ingår i: Educational gerontology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0360-1277 .- 1521-0472. ; 43:10, s. 511-521
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A prolonged working life is crucial for sustaining social welfare and fiscal stability for countries facing ageing populations. The group of older adults is not homogeneous; however, differences within the group may affect the propensity to continue working and to participate in continuing education. The aim of this paper is to explore how participation in work and education vary with gender, age, and education level in a sample of older adults. The study was performed in Sweden, a context characterized by high female labour-market-participation rates and a high average retirement age. The participants were 232 members of four of the major senior citizens? organizations. We found no differences in participation in work and education based on gender. People older than 75 years were found to be as active as people 65?75 years old in education, but the older group worked less. There were positive associations between education level and participation in both work and education. Hence, this study implies that socio-economic inequalities along these dimensions are widened later in life. This highlights the importance of engaging workers with lower education levels in educational efforts throughout life. It also emphasizes the need for true lifelong learning in society.
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- Björklund Carlstedt, Anita, 1953-, et al.
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Staffing agency : A bridge to working during retirement.
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Ingår i: Work. - Amsterdam : IOS Press. - 1051-9815 .- 1875-9270. ; 72:2, s. 529-537
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: The ageing population has initiated a debate about a prolonged working life. There is an interest in finding the pre-retirement predictors of bridge employment and retirement decisions, but the understanding of the experiences of bridge employees is still limited.OBJECTIVES: The aim was to describe the characteristics of the pensioners working for a staffing agency, their motivational aspects, work patterns and types of services they provided.METHODS: This article analyses the results from a Swedish staffing agency's yearly co-worker questionnaire from December 2017. The response rate was 44% (N = 1741). The design is descriptive, with correlation analyses and construction of typical cases.RESULTS: Most study participants were aged 65-74 years. Sixty-five percent were men, 66% were cohabitating/married, dominating education level was secondary school or higher education (79% ). Important incentives for working were the social context and to gain extra income. A majority of the respondents also stated that their work increased their overall well-being. Seventy-eight percent worked 25 hours per month or less, 37% wanted to work more, 3% wanted to work less. Private services dominated with 61% ; most common were gardening (43% ), trades (33%) and cleaning (31% ).CONCLUSIONS: More men than women chose this form of work. While single women need to work out of economic necessity, men, to a larger extent, work for the social context and well-being. The highest work frequency in 2017 (14%) in the population was found for those who retired in 2015, i.e. two years after their retirement year. A majority indicated that the work they were doing was different from earlier in their working life.
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- Fagerström, Cecilia, Docent, 1973-, et al.
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Everyday Health among Older People : A Comparison between Two Countries with Variant Life Conditions
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging Research. - : Hindawi Limited. - 2090-2204 .- 2090-2212. ; 2017
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study described health factors of importance for everyday health, such as pain, tiredness, and sleeping problems, in a cross-national context. Data for persons 60+ years were obtained from the Poverty and Health in Aging study, Bangladesh, and the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care-Blekinge. The strongest associations with everyday health in Sweden were found for pain and tiredness, while in Bangladesh they were financial status, tiredness, and sleeping problems. As similarities were found regarding the associations of tiredness on everyday health, tiredness may be a universal predictor of everyday health in older adults irrespective of country context.
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- Finkel, Deborah, et al.
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Functional Aging Index Complements Frailty in Prediction of Entry into Care and Mortality.
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Ingår i: The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. - : Oxford University Press. - 1079-5006 .- 1758-535X. ; 74:12, s. 1980-1986
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: The aim was to develop a functional aging index (FAI) that taps four body systems: sensory (vision and hearing), pulmonary, strength (grip strength), and movement/balance (gait speed) and to test the predictive value of FAI for entry into care and mortality.METHOD: Growth curve models and cox regression models were applied to data from 1695 individuals from three Swedish longitudinal studies of aging. Participants were aged 45 to 93 at intake and data from up to 8 follow-up waves were available.RESULTS: The rate of change in FAI was twice as fast after age 75 as before, women demonstrated higher mean FAI, but no sex differences in rates of change with chronological age were identified. FAI predicted entry into care and mortality, even when chronological age and a frailty index were included in the models. Hazard ratios indicated FAI was a more important predictor of entry into care for men than women; whereas it was a stronger predictor of mortality for men than women.CONCLUSIONS: Measures of biological aging and functional aging differ in their predictive value for entry into care and mortality for men and women, suggesting that both are necessary for a complete picture of the aging process across genders.
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- Finkel, Deborah, et al.
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Genetic and Environmental Influences on Longitudinal Trajectories of Functional Biological Age : Comparisons Across Gender
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Ingår i: Behavior Genetics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0001-8244 .- 1573-3297. ; 47:4, s. 375-382
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We used an alternate age variable, functional biological age (fBioAge), which was based on performance on functional body measures. The aim was to examine development of fBioAge across the adult life span, and to also examine potential gender differences and genetic and environmental influences on change with age. We used longitudinal data (n = 740; chronological age (ChronAge) range 45-85 at baseline) from the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. The rate of increase in fBioAge was twice as fast after ChronAge 75 than before. fBioAge was higher in women than in men. fBioAge was fairly equally influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Whereas the rate of ChronAge cannot vary across time, gender, or individual, our analyses demonstrate that fBioAge does capture these within and between individual differences in aging, providing advantages for fBioAge in the study of aging effects.
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- Finkel, D., et al.
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Longitudinal trends in functional biological age : Impact of lifestyle factors
- 2015
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Ingår i: The Gerontologist. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0016-9013 .- 1758-5341. ; 55:Suppl 2, s. 61-61
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Composites of measures of biological aging (e.g., Anstey and colleagues, Wahlin and colleagues) can be more meaningful than simple chronological age and provide insights into the aging process and its covariates. The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging provides longitudinal data on measures of vision, hearing, gait, grip strength, and lung function from 642 individuals ranging in age from 47 to 87 at wave 1. Individuals were included who participated in at least one of 5 measurement waves covering 16 years of follow-up; 69% participated in at least 3 waves. The 5 measures are combined and transformed to T-scores to create FBioAge. A two-slope age-based latent growth curve model (LGCM) was applied to the data (note that results for a time-based LGCM were similar). Phenotypic analyses indicated an inflection point in rates of change at age 75: the rate of increase in FBioAge was twice as fast after age 75, compared with prior to age 75. Analysis of the impact of several covariates on the LGCM parameters indicated that most impacted the intercept, only. Thus, on average higher (i.e., older) FBioAge was indicated for women, individuals with less education, smokers, drinkers, individuals who reported more illnesses, and individuals who reported poorer subjective health. Two variables impact the rate of change in FBioAge. Faster rate of change was predictive of mortality and childhood SES impacted the rate of change prior to age 75, only. In future research we will examine how FBioAge relates longitudinally to aging-sensitive functions, such as cognitive abilities.
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