Late-Life Working Participation and Mental Health Risk of Retirement-Aged Workers

Abstract

Social security (employment-based health insurance and pension) is critical to protect mental health of retirement-aged workers. It is essential to improve the design of social security system in order to protect this vulnerable group.

How the interplay of late retirement, health care, economic insecurity, and electronic social contact affects the mental health amongst older workers?

“…In addition, this study further analyzes the moderating role of economic insecurity in the relation between late retirement and mental health problem of older people and the relation between health care quality and mental health problem of older people. Specifically, delaying retirement can help older adults maintain better levels of mental health, which confirms the results of previous studies (Yuan, Zhang & Li, 2022a, 2022b; Bertoni et al., 2018; Li & Yuan, 2022; Li et al., 2022; Reynolds et al., 2012; Wahrendorf et al., 2017). Access to adequate health care resources is beneficial to the mental health of older people, which is also consistent with some studies (Brooker et al., 2014; Gong et al., 2016), as improved medical standards facilitate the timely and effective intervention of mental and physical diseases, and enable older people to be healthier and more engaged in daily life and work.…”

Multimorbidity in older adults and its associated factors in 2010 and 2021

“…Even among retired older adults, it is common, especially among those within the studied age group, for them to continue engaging in employment activities despite the decline in physical capacity 11 . In this aspect, one can even point out factors that are constantly debated in relation to public pension services, where the greater life expectancy is countered by the more frequent physical and mental repercussions among older adults, recognizing the interrelation between physical and social aspects [12][13][14] .…”

Multimorbidade em idosos e seus fatores associados em 2010 e 2021

“…Modelo final da razão de prevalência ajustada, por meio da Regressão de Poisson com variância robusta, para fatores associados a multimorbidade nos idosos de 60 a 69 anos no ano de 2010 (n=192) e 2021 (n=302). aspecto pode-se apontar inclusive fatores que são alvos constantes de discussão frente ao serviço de previdência pública, onde se contrapõe a maior expectativa de vida e as repercussões físicas e mentais mais frequentes entre os idosos, reconhecendo a interrelação entre os aspectos físicos e sociais [12][13][14] .…”