Overview of the health and retirement study and introduction to the special issue

GG Fisher, LH Ryan - Work, aging and retirement, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Twenty-five years ago, the largest academic behavioral and social science project ever
undertaken in the United States began: the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The HRS is …

Cognitive functioning, aging, and work: A review and recommendations for research and practice.

GG Fisher, DS Chaffee, LE Tetrick… - … of occupational health …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
There is a larger proportion and number of older adults in the labor force than ever before.
Furthermore, older adults in the workforce are working until later ages. Although a great deal …

Theories of cognitive aging and work

GG Fisher, M Chacon, DS Chaffee - Work across the lifespan, 2019 - Elsevier
The link between cognitive aging and work is more important than ever, given the increased
proportion of older workers in the labor force and the notion that cognitive functioning is …

Can high-quality jobs help workers learn new tricks? A multidisciplinary review of work design for cognition

SK Parker, MK Ward, GG Fisher - Academy of Management …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
Understanding whether and how work design affects human cognition is important
because:(a) cognition is necessary for job performance,(b) digital technologies increase the …

Age, burnout and physical and psychological work ability among nurses

DJ Hatch, G Freude, P Martus, U Rose… - Occupational …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The ageing of the US labour force highlights the need to examine older adults'
physical and psychological ability to work, under varying levels of occupational burnout …

Midlife work-related stress increases dementia risk in later life: the CAIDE 30-year study

S Sindi, G Hagman, K Håkansson… - … Sciences and Social …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objective To investigate the associations between midlife work-related stress and mild
cognitive impairment (MCI), dementia, and Alzheimer's disease later in life, in a large …

The impact of retirement on age related cognitive decline–a systematic review

A Meng, MA Nexø, V Borg - BMC geriatrics, 2017 - Springer
Background Knowledge on factors affecting the rate of cognitive decline and how to
maintain cognitive functioning in old age becomes increasingly relevant. The purpose of the …

Effects of preretirement work complexity and postretirement leisure activity on cognitive aging

R Andel, D Finkel, NL Pedersen - Journals of Gerontology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: We examined the influence of postretirement leisure activity on longitudinal
associations between work complexity in main lifetime occupation and trajectories of …

Emerging issues in occupational disease: mental health in the aging working population and cognitive impairment—a narrative review

G Giorgi, LI Lecca, JM Leon-Perez… - BioMed research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive impairment has often been reported in scientific literature as a concern derived
from chronic exposure to work‐related stress. Organizational factors can contribute to the …

Mental retirement and health selection: Analyses from the US Health and Retirement Study

SAP Clouston, N Denier - Social Science & Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Research has recently suggested that retirement may decrease cognitive
engagement, resulting in cognitive aging. Few studies have systematically documented …