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14.02.2024 | Comment
The importance of social context in explaining the relationship between later-life work transitions and mental well-being
verfasst von:
Karen Glaser, Ludovico Carrino, Ginevra Floridi
Erschienen in:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
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Ausgabe 3/2024
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Excerpt
The productivity and economic success of the United Kingdom (UK) and other European countries is increasingly reliant on older workers [
1] raising important questions about the drivers of work transitions among older adults, both transitions into and out of work and changes in working conditions. No less important are the individual consequences of work transitions, the topic of our research; these include their effects on mental well-being, given uncertainties about the effect of working longer on health. Variations in work transitions among older workers have been thrown into sharp relief by the COVID-19 pandemic where on the one hand, the over-50s have been among the hardest hit—with many losing their jobs and struggling to transition back into work [
2]—while on the other hand, increasing numbers of people over the age of 65 are ‘unretiring’, i.e., returning to the labour force. …
