A number of different issues of aging affect work organizations. Workers age in the usual sense
of biological, psychological, and social aging. Workers age in an organizational sense resulting
in a need for training and growth. Updating may prevent or minimize obsolescence. Human
factors approaches can support adult and older adult workers through designing or redesigning
a work situation in a way sensitive to the physical and cognitive demands of a job. Demands on
individual workers can change in middle age and older adulthood as caregiving demands of
family members must be balanced with work.
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