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After a poor response to advertisements for employment for older adults, a community health nursing agency surveyed 216 individuals ranging in age from 60 to 96 years to examine their attitudes toward postretirement work, perceptions of barriers to and facilitators of employment, and the influence of perceived health status and income on these factors related to labor force participation. The findings are consistent with continuity theory of aging, and underscore the need for public policies aimed at supporting the decision of older persons to work or retire.

Nurse managers and nursing faculty report, anecdotally, on their difficulty identifying nurses willing to precept new staff or students. To understand more about this topic, we queried home care nurses at a small agency on their perceived incentives and barriers to precepting, their preceptor status, generation of birth, and birth order. The purpose of this pilot study was to identify home care nurses' perceived incentives and barriers to becoming a preceptor. We also sought to examine possible relationships between preceptor status, generation of birth, and ordinal position of birth.