Study on related factors of maintaining productive activities in elderly people based on panel study

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1. Creating the forth-wave panel data:We conducted two-year follow-up survey with participants in the exiting panel study. The baseline survey of this panel study was conducted to a nationally representative Japanese sample (4,000 males and 2,000 females) aged 55 to 64.2. Major findings(1) Paid work and volunteer work had beneficial effects on the physical and psychological well-being of Japanese men. Although men who lost their paid work role reported more depressive symptoms, volunteer work attenuated the negative effect of no paid work role. For women however, no productive role examined in this study was found to be significantly linked with physical and psychological well-being.(2) Probability of labor force participation after mandatory retirement differed by occupational status before mandatory retirement.(3) Level of Job satisfaction among older adults who got new job after mandatory retirement was almost same as level of their job satisfaction before retirement.(4) Acquisition of caregiving role was significantly related to an increase in depressive symptoms and a decrease in health rated health among women, but it was not related to the physical and psychological well-being of men. Labor force participation, informal social contact, and formal social participation were not related to acquisition of caregiving role among both men and women.(5) Ageism and environments at the workplace were associated with the continuation of paid work. For volunteer work, higher educational attainment was related to engagement in volunteer work among men, but not for women. Marital status was related to women's participation in volunteer work.