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Aging Issues and Policy (Elders' Employment (Delaying retirement, Re…
Aging Issues and Policy
Value of work
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establish our own identities, gain a sense of achievement and self-respect
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Elders' Employment
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employment promotes active ageing, assert to society, self-worth, health, social connection
Retirement
Identity Crisis (Miller, 1965)
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Retirement Syndrome (Robert Butler, 1975)
headache, irritability, nervousness, lethargy
Identity Continuity Theory (Atchley, 1971)
will continue to identify with their occupation provided that they have sufficient financial resources and a cohort of friends
develop skills during their occupational careers which are useful after retirement and so provide a degree of identify continunity
Major Changes
loss of income, status, companionship, enjoyment gained from work, life routine associated with work
lead to stress, dissatisfaction, boredom if elders have adjustment problem on their retirement
for the well-prepared elders, they can enjoy their lives and live happier than before
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Pre-retirement Planning
financial planning, habit formulating
future trend of retirement (Quadagno, 2018)
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QOL and Active Aging
QOL (Hooyman & Kiyak, 2011)
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feelings of competence, autonomy in performing ADLs and satisfaction with one's social circumstances
QOL (Moody & Sasser, 2015)
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Active Aging (Rowe & Kaln, 1991)
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Security
support the needs od social, financial, physical for senior
Active Aging (WHO)
the process of optimizing opportunity for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age.
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Long Term Care (LTC), (Hooyman & Kiyak, 2011)
supportive services and assistant to who with chronic disease and disability( unable to function under daily basis)
Activvities of Daily Living (ADL): bathing, toileting, eating, transferring, shopping, cooking
Characteristics of LTC
all ages with disability (physical, mental, transitory, permanent)
enhance autonomy in functional ability and QOL, including rights to die and dignity
encompasses a wide range of services, professions and care setting, care address phy, men, social, financial
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funding source includes federal, state, local gov and private fundations
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Ageism and stereotypes
examples
sick, senile, weak, dogmetic, useless, poor, unhappy
least capable, healthy, forgetful, burden, withdrawn, isolated, unproductive
not sexually interested, stubborn
consequences
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self-perception of health and self-reated functions plays an important role in predicting mortality among elderly people
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Sagism
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positively affect longevity, practice more kinds of preventive health behavior over decades
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