(Occupational Safety, Health, and Ergonomics) 1st Edition
by Joanna Bugajska (Editor), Teresa Makowiec-Dąbrowska (Editor), Tomasz Kostka (Editor)
There are individual and
professional factors that have the greatest impact on the preservation
of work ability for people of advanced age, and people with chronic
health issues and disabilities. This text examines the demographic
trends in the population and shows that proper functioning in their
lives is only possible if people are provided with appropriate
psychosocial and physical working conditions. This publication discusses
physiological changes that occur with age and influence work
performance. It presents the concept of applying the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in order to
assess the work ability of people with disabilities. It shows, using
examples and case studies, that practical activities aimed at
appropriate working conditions for people of advanced age, and people
with health issues and disabilities, will have excellent work ability.
Features
- Presents a comprehensive approach to workplace tolerance for people with health issues
- Offers an innovated in-depth evaluation of the Work Ability Index (WAI)
- Presents
applying the International Classification of Functioning, Disability
and Health (ICF) to access the work ability of people with disabilities
- Outlines actions that should be taken to maintain work ability for people of advanced age or with disabilities
- Provides real case studies and analysis.
"Demographic
changes, especially those related to aging, belong to the main changes
occurring in the contemporary working environment. Thus, preserving work
ability in the older population as well as [populations with] health
concerns are among the most important challenges of today. Accordingly,
the monograph fits into the most recent issues of [this] public health
area, focusing on work ability in populations at risk of social
exclusion, also occupational exclusion. These are older people, persons
with chronic diseases and those with different types of disabilities.
In my opinion, highlighting the problem of work ability in the context
of aging by the authors, in such a broad understanding, is extremely
valuable and useful and the presented research outcome is an authentic
and very much expected contribution to the discussion on this issue. The
topic has been thoroughly presented, which undoubtedly results from the
interdisciplinarity of the group of authors including specialists in
work physiology, physicians and physiotherapists. The monograph provides
a very measurable and reliable knowledge in this field. Combining the
theory with the presentation of the authors’ research outcomes is an
unquestionable advantage of the monograph…".
―Jolanta Walusiak-Skorupa, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland
