Unexpected Retirement from Full Time Work after Age 62: Consequences for Life Satisfaction in older Americans.

Recent policy shifts in the United States have resulted in an increase in the number of older workers remaining in the labor force. Increases in the retirement age for receiving full Social Security benefits coupled with declining pension funds and the erosion of employer retiree health benefits, mean that current cohorts of older workers may fully expect to work longer than previous generations. Yet, working longer may not always be possible due to health problems, outdated skills, economic insecurity, and competing obligations.

Contingency, employment intentions, and retention of vulnerable low-wage workers: an examination of nursing assistants in nursing homes.

Purpose Of The Study: While theories of job turnover generally assume a strong correlation between job satisfaction, intention, and retention, such models may be limited in explaining turnover of low-wage health care workers. Low-wage workers likely have a lower ability to act on their employment intentions or plans due to a lack of resources that serve to cushion higher wage workers. In this study, we examine the relationship between job satisfaction, intention, and retention of nursing assistants in nursing homes and the role that "contingency factors" play in employment intentions and retention.

Erratum to: Unexpected retirement from full time work after age 62: consequences for life satisfaction in older Americans.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1007/s10433-012-0229-5.].

The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course: Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging.

The sociology of aging draws on a broad array of theoretical perspectives from several disciplines, but rarely has it developed its own. We build on past work to advance and empirically test a model of mental health framed in terms of structural theorizing and situated within the life course perspective. Whereas most prior research has been based on cross-sectional data, we utilize four waves of data from a nationally representative sample of American adults (Americans' Changing Lives Study) collected prospectively over a 15-year period and find that education, employment and marital status, as well as their consequences for income and health, effectively explain the increase in depressive symptoms after age 65.

Moving to a continuing care retirement community: occupations in the therapeutic landscape process.

The process of transitioning into, and living in, a retirement community can be usefully examined with the concept of 'therapeutic landscapes.' While underutilized in anthropology and gerontology, the concept offers a combination of geographical and cultural views on the place and well-being relationship. The inclusion of an occupational science perspective, wherein occupations (or everyday activities of meaning) are seen as a crucial part of the person-place relationship, should enhance the therapeutic landscape perspective of older persons and their retirement communities.

The Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network.

Background: The Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network (PRC-HAN), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Healthy Aging program, was created in 2001 to help develop partnerships and create a research agenda that promotes healthy aging. The nine universities that participate in the network use their expertise in aging research to collaborate with their communities and other partners to develop and implement health promotion interventions for older adults at the individual, organizational, environmental, and policy levels.

Context: The population of older adults in the United States is growing rapidly; approximately 20% of Americans will be aged 65 years or older by 2030.

Cultivating social work leadership in health promotion and aging: strategies for active aging interventions.

The rapid growth of the population of older adults and their concomitant physical status and health needs have captured the attention, collaboration, and funding support of an array of leaders in the fields of aging and health care. To help fill the void of literature available to social workers interested in health promotion and aging, the authors provide a conceptual clarification of the meaning of health and explain how health is a resource for optimal living and not merely the absence of disease. The authors analyze frameworks of health promotion and suggest that the ecological approach provides the ideal framework for devising successful strategies in the area of aging.

Evaluation of an integrated model of discharge planning: achieving quality discharges in an efficient and ethical way.

Discharge planning has become increasingly important in an era of shortened lengths of stay in hospital. Prior research demonstrated that discharge practices presented resource and ethical problems. This evaluation of an integrated model of discharge planning (IMDP) included an assessment of resource utilization, respect for persons during decision-making, and the impact of the model in meeting the needs of elderly patients, families, and professionals.

Well-being after stroke in Canadian seniors: findings from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.

Background And Purpose: After a stroke many people continue to live with their residual impairments and disabilities in the community, which can pose a significant problem for survivors' well-being. The purpose of this research was to investigate patterns of well-being in community-dwelling stroke survivors to identify those factors that restrict and enhance well-being.

Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted on data from the second wave of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA-2).

Renal Venous Thrombosis in Children.

Thrombosis of the renal venous system, though uncommon, is a potentially serious disorder in childhood. The present paper is a review of the pertinent literature, and two further cases are reported. Gastro-enteritis does not precede haemorrhagic infarction in the majority of clinically diagnosed cases.