- Title
- Sustaining work participation across the life course
- Creator
- Pransky, Glenn; Fassier, Jean-Baptise; Besen, Elyssa; Blanck, Peter; Ekberg, Kerstin; Feuerstein, Michael; Munir, Fehmidah; Boot, C.R.L.
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/194272
- Identifier
- vital:18337
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-016-9670-1
- Identifier
- ISSN:1053-0487 1573-3688
- Abstract
- Introduction Many disability prevention strategies are focused on acute injuries and brief illness episodes, but there will be growing challenges for employers to manage circumstances of recurrent, chronic, or fluctuating symptoms in an aging workforce. The goal of this article is to summarize existing peer-review research in this area, compare this with employer discourse in the grey literature, and recommend future research priorities. Methods The authors participated in a year-long sponsored collaboration that ultimately led to an invited 3-day conference, “Improving Research of Employer Practices to Prevent Disability”, held October 14–16, 2015, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. The collaboration included a topical review of the scientific and industry literature, group discussion to identify key areas and challenges, drafting of initial documents, and feedback from peer researchers and a special panel of experts with employer experience. Results Cancer and mental illness were chosen as examples of chronic or recurring conditions that might challenge conventional workplace return-to-work practices. Workplace problems identified in the literature included fatigue, emotional exhaustion, poor supervisor and co-worker support, stigma, discrimination, and difficulties finding appropriate accommodations. Workplace intervention research is generally lacking, but there is preliminary support for improving workplace self-management strategies, collaborative problem-solving, and providing checklists and other tools for job accommodation, ideas echoed in the literature directed toward employers. Research might be improved by following workers from an earlier stage of developing workplace concerns. Conclusions Future research of work disability should focus on earlier identification of at-risk workers with chronic conditions, the use of more innovative and flexible accommodation strategies matched to specific functional losses, stronger integration of the workplace into on-going rehabilitation efforts, and a better understanding of stigma and other social factors at work.
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Relation
- Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 26, no. 4 (2016), p. 465-479
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Subject
- Accommodation; Aging; Cancer; Check lists; Chronic conditions; Chronic Disease - rehabilitation; Chronic health conditions; Chronic illnesses; Clinical Medicine; Clinical Psychology; Collaboration; Discrimination; Employee development; Employer practices; Employers; Employment - organization & administration; Environmental Health; Exhaustion; Fatigue; Health Psychology; Humans; Injury prevention; Klinisk medicin; Life Sciences; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental disorders; Mental health; Mental illness; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Oncology, Experimental; Orthopedics; Problem solving; Rehabilitation; Research institutes; Return to Work; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Social factors; Strategic planning (Business); Variation; Workers; Workplace - organization & administration; 3505 Human resources and industrial relations; 4201 Allied health annd rehabilitation science
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