Presentation: Self-tracking devices as a means to increase self insight and self management when it comes to health behavior.Result: higher level of sustainable employability, because workers are more self confident and are better equipped when it comes to health behavior

Sustainable labour participation:• Vitality • Employability• WorkabilitySelf-tracking devices can be used to alter behaviors and increase self efficiency/empowermentResult:–more self efficacy concerning employability –behavioral change in important (health) domains –more empowerment of older workers …

Presentation iAgecheck, held on 20 november 2013.

Since workforces across the world are aging, researchers and organizations need more insight into how and why occupational well-being, together with work-related attitudes and motivations, change with age. Lifespan theories point to subjective health and future time perspective (i.e. an individuals perceptions …

In order to better understand the precursors of bridge employment, this study aimed to investigate whether individual action strategies in terms of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) are able to buffer the well-known negative impact of poor health on the intention …

Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of a Self-Management Program for workers with a chronic disease. This program is based on the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program of Stanford University, modified for workers with a chronic somatic disease. Methods: In a randomized …

Companies are on the verge to think about retention of older workers (workers above 50) in their company. Thus organisations, more specifically small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs), are busy with the development of concepts how to make the time between 50 and retirement age of 65 or 67 for employees …

The workforce in the EU is ageing, and this requires investment in older workers so that the organisations in which they work remain competitive and viable. One such investment takes the form of organising and facilitating intergenerational learning: learning between and among generations that can lead …