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Is there a secret to enabling an aging population working in the service sector to stay in the workforce longer?

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Recent Harvard Sloan Fellow on Aging & Work Leah Abrams, along with HCPDS faculty member Daniel Schneider, and their colleague Kristen Harknett, have published an article in The Gerontologist that reports that although scheduling conditions were found to be more stable for workers ages 50–80 than they were for younger workers, more than 80% of this older cohort experienced at least one type of routine schedule instability that was associated with…

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Labor Day op-ed in The Nation explains why “investments in better jobs today mean better retirements tomorrow”

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Co-editors Beth Truesdale and Lisa Berkman penned an op-ed in honor of Labor Day that shares insights from their new book (that drops tomorrow!), “Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.”

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Truesdale speaks with CNN and NPR about realities and challenges of aging and working longer

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Beth Truesdale (visiting scientist and former Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work at the Harvard Pop Center) explains in this piece on CNN why working longer, although associated with health benefits for some, may not always be possible or healthy for others. Truesdale is co-editor (along with Lisa Berkman) of the forthcoming book “Overtime: America’s Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer.” She also speaks with NPR in this…

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Retiring at a later age may require a boost in healthy life expectancy

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Working longer and later in the lifespan is more possible if it is paired with the “compression of morbidity” — a delayed onset of disability or illness. Center Director Lisa Berkman and her colleague John Rowe have published an article in Nature Aging in which they review recent findings that suggest that while life expectancy may be increasing, the period of life in which functional impairments and disabilities are experienced…

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Lisa Berkman discusses aging workforce on Harvard Chan School webcast The Forum

Harvard Pop Center Director Lisa Berkman appeared as a panel member of a  webcast on The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presented in collaboration with the Huffington Post, on Thursday, February 11. The panel of experts discussed the implications of an aging population on the workforce, including challenges that older workers must face, as well as the impacts on employers and programs such as Social Security.…

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