Abstract
As the workforce is rapidly ageing, research on the consequences of occupational injuries in older workers is becoming more important. One adverse outcome unique to older workers, early retirement, has significant negative social and economic consequences for workers and employers. Although linked to poor worker health, the roles of workplace factors and occupational injury have not been well-defined. Changes in retirement plans attributed to an occupational injury were studied in a population-based sample of 1,449 New Hampshire workers aged
Keywords
Injuries; Occupational-health; Occupational-diseases; Workers; Worker-health; Employee-health; Age-factors; Age-groups; Demographic-characteristics; Medical-care; Models; Sampling; Mental-health; Risk-factors; Risk-analysis