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Occupational health for an ageing workforce: do we need a geriatric perspective?

Koh GC, Koh D

Community, Occupational and Family Medicine Department, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, MD3, 16 Medical Drive, 117597, Singapore. cofkohch@nus.edu.sg.

ABSTRACT: Extending retirement ages and anti-age discrimination policies will increase the numbers of older workers in the future. Occupational health physicians may have to draw upon the principles and experience of geriatric medicine to manage these older workers. Examples of common geriatric syndromes that will have an impact on occupational health are mild cognitive impairment and falls at the workplace. Shifts in paradigms and further research into the occupational health problems of an ageing workforce will be needed.

Published 20 July 2006 in J Occup Med Toxicol, 1: 8.
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