Using all potential -sustaining workability and productivity through age specifíc working

Abstract

Much has been said and written about the facts and implications ofdemographic change over the recent years. The message seems to slowly land: Oursociety is ageing, and so is Europe’s workforce. Thanks to various European and national initiatives and programmes, “age management in the workplace” has become a much-used term amongst researchers and practitioners in the fields ofoccupational Sciences, workplace health-promotion and related areas. Nevertheless- due to prevailing early-retirement practices in many countries over the last decades - the concept of“age specifíc working” or even the notion ofhaving to deal with an older workforce in the nearer future is still pretty new to those who will be most affected by the current developments: Europe’s companies and organisations, especially the many smaller ones among them