Workforce participation, health and wealth inequality among older Australians between 2001 and 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Australians born in 2012 can expect to live about 33 years longer than those born 100 years earlier. However, only seven of these additional years are spent in the workforce. Longer life expectancy has driven policies to extend working life and increase retirement age; the current Australian policy, which has increased the eligibility for the pension from 65 to 67 by 2023, assumes that an improvement in longevity corresponds with an improvement in healthy life expectancy. However, there is mixed evidence of health trends in Australia over the past two decades. Although some health outcomes are improving among older age groups, many are either stable or deteriorating. This raises a question of how health trends intersect with policy for older Australians aged from 50 to 7

SUBMITTER: Dinh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8969371 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature