PRODUCTIVE AGING AND WORK

Research Goals

An important part of the NCPAW ’s agenda is to identify goals that need to be addressed with regard to aging-related research and the translation of those findings into useful information and guidance materials. The research goals that NCPAW will address fall into the following three areas:

• Surveillance: Collect, analyze, and interpret health related data with the purpose of better understanding factors related to productive aging. Surveillance is used to describe the nature of occupational safety and health issues, identify priorities for research and intervention, and evaluate trends.
• Health Effects/Mechanisms of Aging: Identify and characterize mechanisms and health effects of workplace risk factors and protective factors for productive aging in workers across the working life.
• Evidence-based Practices/Interventions: Examine the effectiveness of actual interventions, communication tools, policies, and practices designed to support workers and improve effectiveness at different points across the working life.

Please check back with us as the NCPAW Team develops specific research goals in each of these three areas.