{"id":127815,"date":"2017-10-31T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127815"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:37:26","slug":"age-friendly-workplaces-better-for-health-of-mature-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/31\/age-friendly-workplaces-better-for-health-of-mature-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-friendly workplaces better for health of mature staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80640\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/workplace-1245776_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80640\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/workplace-1245776_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Using data from a decade-long national survey of 1,700 people aged between 45 and 64, Dr.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/workplace-1245776_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/workplace-1245776_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/workplace-1245776_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy super kamagra online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/super-kamagra.html\">ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/super-kamagra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Cathy Gong from the Australian National University (ANU) was able to assess yearly changes in one&#8217;s health and well-being in relation to their gradual transition out of the workforce.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy chloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/chloroquine.html\">ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/chloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (Pixabay photo)&#8221; width=&#8221;960&#8243; height=&#8221;640&#8243; \/><\/a> Using data from a decade-long national survey of 1,700 people aged between 45 and 64, Dr. Cathy Gong from the Australian National University (ANU) was able to assess yearly changes in one&#8217;s health and well-being in relation to their gradual transition out of the workforce. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CANBERRA\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Age-friendly workplaces and allowing employees to retire voluntarily contribute to longer careers and better overall health of retirees, according to Australian researchers who undertook a study of older Australians in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from a decade-long national survey of 1,700 people aged between 45 and 64, Dr. Cathy Gong from the Australian National University (ANU) was able to assess yearly changes in one&#8217;s health and well-being in relation to their gradual transition out of the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Gong said by catering to older employees, workplaces were contributing not only to longer careers, but also better overall employee health.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gong&#8217;s team, being in an age-friendly workplace heightened the likelihood of a worker making it to voluntary retirement &#8211; something they said was vital to health and well-being later in life.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis super force online <a href=\"https:\/\/ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/cialis-super-force.html\">ivvitamintherapylosangeles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/png\/cialis-super-force.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who left work involuntarily experienced significant decreases in their satisfaction with their finances, health and life, just in general,&#8221; Gong, from the ANU&#8217;s Research School of Population Health said in a media release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were also more likely to be psychologically distressed and welfare dependent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Age-friendly workplaces, work flexibility, retraining and promotion of healthy lifestyles are vital to address the major causes of not working, enable people to have longer careers and enhance well-being in later life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Gong&#8217;s colleague, Professor Hal Kendig, having control over the decision to retire from the workforce was the greatest contributor to better health and well-being among older Australians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voluntary retirement with control over the timing and manner of retirement has a positive impact on a retiree&#8217;s psychological and social wellbeing,&#8221; Kendig said in the media release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enabling mature-aged workers to have longer careers offers benefits for both individual well-being and government budgets.&#8221;\u00a0<strong><em>(Xinhua)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA\u00a0\u2014 Age-friendly workplaces and allowing employees to retire voluntarily contribute to longer careers and better overall health of retirees, according &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30694,30697,30695,30696],"class_list":["post-127815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-age-friendly-workplaces","tag-australian-national-university-anu","tag-australian-researchers","tag-dr-cathy-gong","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283677,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127815\/revisions\/283677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}