Successful/Productive aging – The Sloan Research Network on Aging & Work

Older Adults Are Essential Workers: Ageism and Productive Aging

Dr. Nancy Morrow-Howell talks with hosts Rita Hu and Hanamori Skoblow about why older adults are essential and productive members of the community and how we as a society can resist ageism.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3gVMKLk

September 2, 2021

Encore Physicians Help Community Health Clinics Deliver Care, while Mentoring Younger Colleagues

In 2019, Encore.org launched the Encore Physicians program to match retired doctors who want to continue practicing medicine part-time and mentor younger colleagues with health centers that need additional support.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/37AHk34

August 12, 2021

Call for Proposals –Advancing Economic Security

ASA is pleased to open a Call for Proposals to On Aging 2022, as we look forward to reuniting in person in New Orleans.

Resource URL: https://asaging.org/on-aging-call-proposals

July 14, 2021

Finding Your Purpose By Helping Nonprofits In The Pandemic

And Encore Fellows like Maxion, Harriette Cole and David Pfeifer, featured below, have been finding novel, meaningful ways to assist nonprofits during Covid-19.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/36sbcxS

July 8, 2021

Why It’s Fine to Fail Freely After 50

Post-career advice from the author of ‘Tapas Life’

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/2T2zQCm

June 24, 2021

Introducing The 50 Over 50: Women Proving Success Has No Age Limit

Meet our inaugural class of entrepreneurs, leaders, scientists and creators who, after the age of 50, are achieving their greatest accomplishments and making their biggest impact. Together, they embody a new movement of women who reject the idea that the most dynamic part of life is the first half.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3xmiGOC

June 17, 2021

20 Years After its Adoption, the EU Employment Directive Still Leaves Older Workers Behind

Active ageing and flexible retirement policies applied across the EU aim to encourage and support longer working lives. But European and national courts still seem to reflect biased and outdated views of the life course and of older people’s abilities to work and do not equally protect our human rights when we are older.

Resource URL: https://bit.ly/3hS1z2J

May 26, 2021

Control at Work: An Integrative, Lifespan-Informed Review

Control is one of the most ubiquitous and fundamental concepts to the study of psychology, including theory, research, and practice related to aging and work. This paper provides a review of age- and work-relevant theory and research pertaining to a variety of “actual,” perceived, and enacted control constructs.

Resource URL: https://psyarxiv.com/durvz/