The association between health and retirement: Self-health assessment of Israeli retirees

Is retirement good for your health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

“…However, other studies indicated no differences between regulatory retirees and voluntary retirees in terms of health after retirement [26,29,39]. Regarding occupational characteristics, this review indicated no clear differences between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers regarding the health effects of retirement [11,17,28,35,40]. …”

“…Two studies reported explicitly on early retirement [17,25], ten on old-age (regulatory) retirement [16,17,23-30], two on voluntary retirement [11,26] and one on involuntary retirement [11]. The health outcomes were most often assessed by self-reports (n = 17) and included perceived general health (n = 10) [9,15,21,23,26,28-32]/[11,17,23,28,31-35], mental health (n = 12) [16,23-28,31,36-38] and physical health (n = 12) [16,26-32,34,39-41]. Follow-up times ranged from approximately 1 year to 15 years (see Additional file 1, Additional file 2 and Additional file 3).…”

“…The included studies stemmed from the United States (n = 7) [29,32,34-39], Israel (n = 2) [25,27], China (n = 1) [30], Northern European countries including Finland (n = 2) [24,28] and Sweden (n = 2) [33,40], and Western European countries including the Netherlands (n = 1) [11], Switzerland (n = 1) [25], France (n = 2) [16,17] and the United Kingdom (n = 4) [26,27,31,41]. As to time-period, eleven of the included studies were published after the year 2000 [11,16,17,23-27,30,37,38], four between 1990–2000 [28,31,33,36], six were published between 1980–1990 [29,32,34,35,39,40], and one was published in 1966 [41]. …”

“…Ten studies investigated the effect of retirement on perceived general health (see Table 3 and Additional file 1) [11,17,23,25,28,31-35], of which five were judged as being of high quality [11,17,23,34,35]. Seven studies provided data on the prevalence of poor perceived health before (T1) and after (T2) retirement [11,17,28,32-35].…”

Is retirement good for your health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

“…However, other studies indicated no differences between regulatory retirees and voluntary retirees in terms of health after retirement [26,29,39]. Regarding occupational characteristics, this review indicated no clear differences between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers regarding the health effects of retirement [11,17,28,35,40]. …”

“…Two studies reported explicitly on early retirement [17,25], ten on old-age (regulatory) retirement [16,17,23-30], two on voluntary retirement [11,26] and one on involuntary retirement [11]. The health outcomes were most often assessed by self-reports (n = 17) and included perceived general health (n = 10) [9,15,21,23,26,28-32]/[11,17,23,28,31-35], mental health (n = 12) [16,23-28,31,36-38] and physical health (n = 12) [16,26-32,34,39-41]. Follow-up times ranged from approximately 1 year to 15 years (see Additional file 1, Additional file 2 and Additional file 3).…”

“…The included studies stemmed from the United States (n = 7) [29,32,34-39], Israel (n = 2) [25,27], China (n = 1) [30], Northern European countries including Finland (n = 2) [24,28] and Sweden (n = 2) [33,40], and Western European countries including the Netherlands (n = 1) [11], Switzerland (n = 1) [25], France (n = 2) [16,17] and the United Kingdom (n = 4) [26,27,31,41]. As to time-period, eleven of the included studies were published after the year 2000 [11,16,17,23-27,30,37,38], four between 1990–2000 [28,31,33,36], six were published between 1980–1990 [29,32,34,35,39,40], and one was published in 1966 [41]. …”

“…Ten studies investigated the effect of retirement on perceived general health (see Table 3 and Additional file 1) [11,17,23,25,28,31-35], of which five were judged as being of high quality [11,17,23,34,35]. Seven studies provided data on the prevalence of poor perceived health before (T1) and after (T2) retirement [11,17,28,32-35].…”

Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Despite the well-known assumption that considers retirement as a potentially stressful life event (Kremer, 1985;Ekerdt, 1987;Salokangas and Joukamaa, 1991), one of our review's critical findings is that retiring does not necessarily harm an individual's mental health but possibly decrease the risk of depression, as a balance of contextual and individual-level variables impact on such association. In conceptual frameworks proposed in the ageing research literature (Van Solinge, 2007), these variables were categorised into: (i) characteristics of the retirement transition, (ii) characteristics of the job, (iii) access to resources, (iv) individual appraisal and (v) gender.…”

Is retirement good for your health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

“…However, other studies indicated no differences between regulatory retirees and voluntary retirees in terms of health after retirement [26,29,39]. Regarding occupational characteristics, this review indicated no clear differences between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers regarding the health effects of retirement [11,17,28,35,40]. …”

“…Two studies reported explicitly on early retirement [17,25], ten on old-age (regulatory) retirement [16,17,23-30], two on voluntary retirement [11,26] and one on involuntary retirement [11]. The health outcomes were most often assessed by self-reports (n = 17) and included perceived general health (n = 10) [9,15,21,23,26,28-32]/[11,17,23,28,31-35], mental health (n = 12) [16,23-28,31,36-38] and physical health (n = 12) [16,26-32,34,39-41]. Follow-up times ranged from approximately 1 year to 15 years (see Additional file 1, Additional file 2 and Additional file 3).…”

“…The included studies stemmed from the United States (n = 7) [29,32,34-39], Israel (n = 2) [25,27], China (n = 1) [30], Northern European countries including Finland (n = 2) [24,28] and Sweden (n = 2) [33,40], and Western European countries including the Netherlands (n = 1) [11], Switzerland (n = 1) [25], France (n = 2) [16,17] and the United Kingdom (n = 4) [26,27,31,41]. As to time-period, eleven of the included studies were published after the year 2000 [11,16,17,23-27,30,37,38], four between 1990–2000 [28,31,33,36], six were published between 1980–1990 [29,32,34,35,39,40], and one was published in 1966 [41]. …”

“…Ten studies investigated the effect of retirement on perceived general health (see Table 3 and Additional file 1) [11,17,23,25,28,31-35], of which five were judged as being of high quality [11,17,23,34,35]. Seven studies provided data on the prevalence of poor perceived health before (T1) and after (T2) retirement [11,17,28,32-35].…”

Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Despite the well-known assumption that considers retirement as a potentially stressful life event (Kremer, 1985;Ekerdt, 1987;Salokangas and Joukamaa, 1991), one of our review's critical findings is that retiring does not necessarily harm an individual's mental health but possibly decrease the risk of depression, as a balance of contextual and individual-level variables impact on such association. In conceptual frameworks proposed in the ageing research literature (Van Solinge, 2007), these variables were categorised into: (i) characteristics of the retirement transition, (ii) characteristics of the job, (iii) access to resources, (iv) individual appraisal and (v) gender.…”

Is retirement good for your health? A systematic review of longitudinal studies

“…However, other studies indicated no differences between regulatory retirees and voluntary retirees in terms of health after retirement [26,29,39]. Regarding occupational characteristics, this review indicated no clear differences between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers regarding the health effects of retirement [11,17,28,35,40]. …”

“…Two studies reported explicitly on early retirement [17,25], ten on old-age (regulatory) retirement [16,17,23-30], two on voluntary retirement [11,26] and one on involuntary retirement [11]. The health outcomes were most often assessed by self-reports (n = 17) and included perceived general health (n = 10) [9,15,21,23,26,28-32]/[11,17,23,28,31-35], mental health (n = 12) [16,23-28,31,36-38] and physical health (n = 12) [16,26-32,34,39-41]. Follow-up times ranged from approximately 1 year to 15 years (see Additional file 1, Additional file 2 and Additional file 3).…”

“…The included studies stemmed from the United States (n = 7) [29,32,34-39], Israel (n = 2) [25,27], China (n = 1) [30], Northern European countries including Finland (n = 2) [24,28] and Sweden (n = 2) [33,40], and Western European countries including the Netherlands (n = 1) [11], Switzerland (n = 1) [25], France (n = 2) [16,17] and the United Kingdom (n = 4) [26,27,31,41]. As to time-period, eleven of the included studies were published after the year 2000 [11,16,17,23-27,30,37,38], four between 1990–2000 [28,31,33,36], six were published between 1980–1990 [29,32,34,35,39,40], and one was published in 1966 [41]. …”

“…Ten studies investigated the effect of retirement on perceived general health (see Table 3 and Additional file 1) [11,17,23,25,28,31-35], of which five were judged as being of high quality [11,17,23,34,35]. Seven studies provided data on the prevalence of poor perceived health before (T1) and after (T2) retirement [11,17,28,32-35].…”

Does retirement trigger depressive symptoms? A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Despite the well-known assumption that considers retirement as a potentially stressful life event (Kremer, 1985;Ekerdt, 1987;Salokangas and Joukamaa, 1991), one of our review's critical findings is that retiring does not necessarily harm an individual's mental health but possibly decrease the risk of depression, as a balance of contextual and individual-level variables impact on such association. In conceptual frameworks proposed in the ageing research literature (Van Solinge, 2007), these variables were categorised into: (i) characteristics of the retirement transition, (ii) characteristics of the job, (iii) access to resources, (iv) individual appraisal and (v) gender.…”