Ageing, Work-Related Stress, & Health: Reviewing the Evidence
​What the project is about:
​Most reviews of research on work-related stress, its causes, and its effects have been based on large groups of workers and very rarely distinguished by age. This consultancy project, jointly commissioned by TAEN – The Age and Employment Network (now known as The Third Age Employment Network) and Age Concern and Help the Aged (now known as Age UK), addresses this gap. The review found that stress levels peak at about 50 to 55 years of age and decrease towards retirement. The effects of work-related stress can last well into retirement.​
The report was launched at a seminar held at the Institute of Material, Minerals and Mining, London on October 21st 2009.
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The Team
Project Leader: Amanda Griffiths
Members:
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Alec Knight
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Nor Diana Mohd Mahudin
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Publications
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​​Griffiths, A., Knight, A., & Mohd Mahudin, N. D. (2009). Ageing, work-related stress and health: Reviewing the evidence. London: TAEN – The Age and Employment Network and Age Concern and Help the Aged.
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​Griffiths, A., Knight, A., & Mohd Mahudin, N. D. (2013). The relationship between work design and retirement: Implications for organizational policy. In R. Burke & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), The Fulfilling Workplace: The Organization's Role in Achieving Individual and Organizational Health (pp. 247-264). Gower Publishing. This book is reprinted by Routledge in 2016.
Media
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University of Nottingham. (2009, October 21). Older Workers Are the Healthy 'Survivors' of the Workplace. ScienceDaily. Available from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091021100520.htm
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Insights for impact
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This report has been used to inform the consultation on the draft guideline on Workplace Older Employees (included as an extension to ‘Workplace Policy and Management Practices to Improve the Health and Wellbeing of Employees’ NG13) by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK.
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It informed the Ageing and the Workplace Report from the BMA Occupational Medicine Committee in 2016.
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It also informed the Future of an Ageing Population: Evidence Review report by UK’s Government Office for Science’s Foresight Future of an Ageing Population project.
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