Factors associated with work ability in the elderly: systematic review

Amorim, Juleimar Soares Coelho de; Salla, Silvana; Trelha, Celita Salmaso

doi:10.1590/1809-4503201400040003

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“…These feelings may be unfavorable to maintaining the mental health of the elderly. In this sense, despite susceptible conditions related to working capacity of the elderly, systematic review performed in one study did not corroborate the findings of this research, as it indicates that work, even though associated with body damage and difficulty in performing functions, it acts as an important protective factor against depression, disability and frailty, maintaining well-being, good cognitive level and independence in daily activities (26)(27) .…”

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Mental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study

Cordeiro¹,

Santos

Araújo

et al. 2020

Rev. Bras. Enferm.

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Objective: to describe the mental health profile of the elderly registered in a Family Health Unit in the city of Recife, Pernambuco State. Method: it was a descriptive quantitative study, conducted with 159 elderly through the scales Geriatric Depression, Resilience, Social Support, Life Satisfaction, and Positive and Negative Affects, Mini-Mental State Examination, Stressful Events Inventory and Brazil Old Age Shedule. Results: females, young and literate elderly predominated. Most were satisfied with life, 52.2% without depressive symptoms, 68.6% without cognitive impairment, 67.9% high resilience and 95.8% high social support, but 62% of elderly with depressive symptoms showed cognitive deficit. Negative correlation was identified between depression and cognitive impairment, resilience, social support and life satisfaction. Conclusion: assessment of these indicators identifies triggers of psychological distress, assisting the nursing staff in the development of preventive and care actions.

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confidence: 67%

Mental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study

Cordeiro¹,

Santos

Araújo

et al. 2020

Rev. Bras. Enferm.

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“…Furthermore, this study did not present any relationship between ICT and lifestyle habits such as drinking, smoking and practicing physical and leisure activities. This was different from that found in a systematic re-view which identified negative correlations with work ability and smoking, and a positive correlation between capacity and physical activity 18 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regular physical activity, in turn, can be a strategy in terms of health promotion with a positive effect on work performance, since it benefits the body by increasing energy consumption and maintaining aerobic capacity, muscular strength and resistance 1,18 .…”

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Capacidade para o trabalho da equipe de enfermagem hospitalar: estudo correlacional

2016

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Aims: to evaluate the working ability of a hospital nursing team. Method: this is a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The subjects of the survey were 144 nursing workers from a federal hospital. Data were collected through the Work Ability Index questionnaire and treated by descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Results: the ability for work was evaluated as low for 3.5% of the workers, moderate for 20.8%, good for 47.2% and excellent for 28.5%. There was a correlation between the ability to work and the role performed in terms of nurses and nursing assistants. Discussion: the finding is the same as that found in a previous study carried out with nurses. Conclusion: the research hypothesis was refuted by not establishing an association between work capacity and socio-demographic and lifestyle variables.

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“…These dynamically and mutually related predictors favor mechanisms to promote and preserve the WC and demonstrate areas that need further actions to maintain WC in the course of the workers' aging process [15] [16].…”

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Work Capacity of the Elderly: Assuming An-other Social Identity in the Contemporary World

Ribeiro¹,

Santos²,

Souza³

et al. 2015

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This is a theoretical study on the work capacity of elderly people based on the Social Identity Theory-SIT. In that perspective, work capacity can be considered as the result of a dynamic process. It refers to the worker's skills to execute professional activities according to the job requirements and his/her health condition. The SIT aims to highlight the existing impact on people's behavior when they find themselves members of social categories and, therefore, it involves the operation of three psychological processes, which are: social categorization, social identification and social comparison. Thus, one can assume that society characterizes the elderly people as belonging to the retired group, and from a capitalist perspective, considers these people as unproductive. Their identity is linked to workers who are active in the job market; in addition, the chronological determinant of age does not impede elderly people from continuing in the job market. When elderly people are considered capable of developing their activities, whether professionally or not, and start to play new social roles, the start of the transformation in the conception of old age is perceived. In view of this panorama, a Conceptual Theoretical base is proposed, aiming to locate the phenomenon "work capacity" inside the aging process as this capacity is centered on the advanced activities of daily living.

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Factors associated with work ability in the elderly: systematic review

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Mental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study

Mental health profile of the elderly community: a cross-sectional study

Capacidade para o trabalho da equipe de enfermagem hospitalar: estudo correlacional

Work Capacity of the Elderly: Assuming An-other Social Identity in the Contemporary World

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