Safety critical work, ageing and cognitive decline
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Safety critical work, ageing and cognitive decline.
Fitness for work assessment is inherent to occupational medicine practice, whether at the pre-employment stage, or when a person is an established employee. Many occupational health practitioners are involved in the assessment of fitness of workers to undertake safety critical work, for example, driving a heavy goods vehicle or a train or working in health care. But, how do we define safety cri...
متن کاملPrevalence of ageing-associated cognitive decline in an elderly population.
Different diagnostic definitions have been proposed for use in the characterization of mild cognitive disorders associated with ageing. Previously, we reported a high (38.4%) prevalence of age-associated memory impairment (AAMI) using the National Institute of Mental Health criteria in an elderly population. Recently, a work group of the International Psychogeriatric Association proposed criter...
متن کاملPredictors of ageing-related decline across multiple cognitive functions
It is critical to discover why some people's cognitive abilities age better than others'. We applied multivariate growth curve models to data from a narrow-age cohort measured on a multi-domain IQ measure at age 11 years and a comprehensive battery of thirteen measures of visuospatial, memory, crystallized, and processing speed abilities at ages 70, 73, and 76 years (n = 1091 at age 70). We fou...
متن کاملComplex Decision Making: The Roles of Cognitive Limitations, Cognitive Decline and Ageing
We review evidence on decision making in complex choice situations – i.e., situations where there are many alternatives and/or where attributes of alternatives are difficult to understand. We focus on choices about health insurance, health care, and retirement planning, all of which are very important for the well-being of the elderly. Our review suggests that consumers in general, and the elde...
متن کاملAgeing, Cognitive Abilities and Retirement Ageing, Cognitive Abilities and Retirement *
We investigate the relationship between ageing, cognitive abilities and retirement using the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), a household panel that offers the possibility of comparing several European countries using nationally representative samples of the population aged 50+. The human capital framework suggests that retirement may cause an increase in cognitive dec...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqs138