Trajectories of self-rated health before and after retirement: evidence from two cohort studies

Stenholm, Sari; Virtanen, Marianna; Pentti, Jaana; Oksanen, Tuula; Kivimäki, Mika; Vahtera, Jussi

doi:10.1136/oemed-2019-106026

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“…The study population consisted of aging public sector employees from the Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (FIREA) which was established in 2013 17,18 . The eligible population for the FIREA study included public sector employees whose individual statutory retirement date was between 2014 and 2019, and who were working in one of the 27 municipalities in Southwest Finland or in one of the selected nine cities or five hospital districts around Finland in 2012.…”

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Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study

Virtanen

Pentti³

et al. 2020

Occup Environ Med

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ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare the development of self-rated health, psychological distress and physical functioning between those retired on time and those who continued working beyond the individual retirement age.MethodsThe study population consisted of 2340 public sector employees from the Finnish Retirement and Aging study. Participants were categorised into no extension of employment (retired at the individual retirement date or <3 months past) and extension of employment (≥12 months). Propensity score matching (1:1 ratio) was used to identify comparable group of participants in the no-extension (n=574) and extension (n=574) groups by taking into account preretirement characteristics and their interactions.ResultsThe prevalence of suboptimal self-rated health and psychological distress changed a little among the extension group during the follow-up from 1 year before (T1) to 18 months (T2) and 30 months (T3) after individual pensionable date. Compared with no extension, the risk of having suboptimal self-rated health in the extension group was 0.89 (95% CI 0.68 to 1.17) at T1, 1.16 (95% CI 0.88 to 1.53) at T2 and 0.96 (95% CI 0.68 to 1.37) at T3. For psychological distress, the corresponding risk ratios were 0.93 (0.65 to 1.32), 1.15 (0.78 to 1.69) and 1.04 (0.61 to 1.79). The mean differences in the number of physical functioning difficulties between the extension and no-extension groups were 0.06 (−0.16 to 0.29) at T1, 0.05 (−0.18 to 0.27) at T2 and −0.11 (−0.39 to 0.17) at T3.ConclusionsThis study found no evidence that voluntarily extending the working career beyond retirement age would pose a risk to health and physical functioning among ageing workers.

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“…For the analyses dichotomized (good: good and rather good; sub-optimal: average, rather poor and poor) variable was used. We have used dichotomized self-rated health as it is commonly used and to allow comparison to other studies 17 .…”

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Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study

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et al. 2020

Occup Environ Med

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“…For instance, as exercise and physical activity are beneficial for physical and mental health [17], the lower level of physical activity seen in university students compared with high school students [18] could potentially lead to lower health level. It has been shown in other populations that transitions can be associated with changes in health status, for instance transition to parenthood [19] and transitioning to retirement [20].…”

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Trajectories of Health Status during the Transition from School to University: Piloting the Method of Biographical Mapping in German Medical Students

Diehl

Lindenthal

2021

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Health status and health behavior change during the transition from school to university. However, it is still unclear whether these changes occur at specific points in time, and whether these changes are stable. Therefore, our aim was to conduct a pilot test on biographical mapping (BM) for the first time in this research area in order to map the trajectories of the health status of university students over time. This enabled us to also test the practicability of BM, and to assess the agreement of the findings of BM with those of a standardized questionnaire. We included 30 fourth-year university students. First, they filled in a standardized questionnaire on their sociodemographic information, current health status, and health status compared with that for their final year of school. Second, they filled in a BM grid that allows for drawing the changes in health status that have taken place over the transition period. The health status changed during the transition (e.g., slight decline in general subjective health), and was related to specific events before and after the transition (e.g., examinations), showing that all health variables were not stable over time. The findings of BM were also reflected in the standardized questionnaire. Using BM revealed the changes in health during a six-year-period, including the school–university transition. The identified changes in health during transition and at specific time points underline that not only assistance before the transition, but also psychological support during studies, seems to be important for the health promotion of students. Besides this, BM seems to be a useful, although time-consuming, instrument for which the results were similar to those in the questionnaire.

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“…Moreover, poor physical functioning was associated with increased odds of normative retirement (compared with continuing work or having left work for reasons other than retirement). In a French cohort study, self-rated ill-health increased before retirement [ 32 ], and in two Finnish cohorts, changes in self-rated health during retirement transition related mainly to occupational status, such that those with higher occupational status had more beneficial health developments than those with lower status [ 33 ]. Thus, when attempting to unravel whether organizational justice developments during the years before retirement can add to the understanding of decisions to retire it is of importance to take self-rated health developments prior to retirement into consideration.…”

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Trajectories of Procedural and Interactional Justice as Predictors of Retirement among Swedish Workers: Differences between Three Groups of Retirees

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Peristera

Bernhard‐Oettel

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Organizational justice is an important aspect of the psychosocial work environment, but there is a lack of studies on whether justice perceptions also predict retirement decisions. The aim of this study is to examine trajectories of procedural and interactional justice perceptions prior to retirement of three groups of retirees while considering self-rated health and important demographics. Data from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (2006–2018, N = 3000) were used. Respondents were grouped into early retirement, normative retirement and late retirement. Latent growth curve models and multinomial logistic regressions were conducted to test whether trajectories of justice perceptions prior to retirement differed between retirement groups while controlling for self-rated health development and demographic variables. Late retirees had higher intercept levels of interactional justice and higher intercept levels of self-rated health prior to retirement, compared to early retirees. Late retirees also showed a slower decrease in procedural justice compared to early retirees. Only intercept levels of self-rated health differed between early retirees and normative retirees, such that early retirees had lower levels of self-rated health prior to retirement. Keeping employees in the workforce is a major challenge for any aging society. Organizational justice perceptions in the years prior to retirement seem particularly influential for delaying retirement.

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Trajectories of self-rated health before and after retirement: evidence from two cohort studies

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Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study

Does working beyond the statutory retirement age have an impact on health and functional capacity? The Finnish Retirement and Aging cohort study

Trajectories of Health Status during the Transition from School to University: Piloting the Method of Biographical Mapping in German Medical Students

Trajectories of Procedural and Interactional Justice as Predictors of Retirement among Swedish Workers: Differences between Three Groups of Retirees

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