Working environments for healthy ageing: An evidence-driven framework

WAge will develop an evidence-driven overarching framework for assessing the work-related factors influencing ageing trajectories. The project will generate a new large body of evidence to reliably evaluate the importance of physical and mental health factors. We will determine the strength of the association between work-related physical and psychosocial factors with age using individual-participant data from a sample of workers across age groups. We will complement these data with results from published studies identified by systematic literature searches. WAge will then use the overarching framework and identified interactions to develop proposals for intervention strategies, update assessment methods, and policy change. The proposed work will use system dynamics modeling to propose evidence-based policies aimed at improving public health, reducing health inequalities and extending work careers. This project focuses on a question that has high societal relevance and is timely because the proportion of employees under adverse physical and psychosocial work environments is likely to increase as organisations, businesses, and workers have to adapt to post-pandemic working environments in an ageing Europe.

HLTH-2023-ENVHLTH-02-02 (Evidence-based interventions for promotion of mental and physical health in changing working environments (post-pandemic workplaces))