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As the country's workforce ages, the changing labor market must
address unique challenges as well as surprising opportunities. This
book presents leading scholars and researchers providing valuable
insights into the challenges facing older workers in the
contemporary workplace as well as offering perspectives on the
demands presently being placed on employers to adapt to and
accommodate the needs of these workers. The book focuses on the
analysis of current trends in older workers, work, family, and
personal life issues, and ways to transform today's workplace to
value older workers. This book offers practitioners the opportunity
to fully grasp the current situation for older workers by
presenting the latest research. This helpful resource provides
professionals with best practices and innovative approaches to
support aging employees. The volume is extensively referenced and
contains several tables to clearly present data. It is a valuable
text for employers, human resources professionals, employee
assistance programs, work/family professionals, gerontologists and
aging studies professionals, educators, and students. This book was
published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral
Health.
As the country's workforce ages, the changing labor market must
address unique challenges as well as surprising opportunities. This
book presents leading scholars and researchers providing valuable
insights into the challenges facing older workers in the
contemporary workplace as well as offering perspectives on the
demands presently being placed on employers to adapt to and
accommodate the needs of these workers. The book focuses on the
analysis of current trends in older workers, work, family, and
personal life issues, and ways to transform today's workplace to
value older workers. This book offers practitioners the opportunity
to fully grasp the current situation for older workers by
presenting the latest research. This helpful resource provides
professionals with best practices and innovative approaches to
support aging employees. The volume is extensively referenced and
contains several tables to clearly present data. It is a valuable
text for employers, human resources professionals, employee
assistance programs, work/family professionals, gerontologists and
aging studies professionals, educators, and students. This book was
published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral
Health.
Today women find themselves playing an ever-increasing role in
caring for older family members who are frail, developmentally
disabled, or suffering from serious mental illness. While this has
role of women as caregivers has been documented, the actual impact
on the lives of women has remained largely unstudied. In this
volume, the authors examine caregiving as a central feminist issue,
looking at its impact on women socially, personally, and
economically. The authors review how changing family structures,
the changing economy and workforce, and the changing health care
demands of needy adults have impacted on women's lives. They
critique existing public and private policies, demonstrating a need
for fundamental structural changes in social institutions and
attitudes to improve the lives of women. Finally, they propose a
social model of care that is oriented toward gender
justice--recognition of the work of caring and its impact upon
women socially, personally, and economically. For students,
scholars and practitioners in the field of gerontology, gender
studies, and social work, this book is a must.
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