Assessment of Health-Related Work Capacity to Improve Independence of Older Adults

项目摘要 工作能力是衡量健康状况的一种标准，与工作的功能要求有关。 环境具体地说，它是执行一项工作或一组工作的能力，代表了相互作用 个人的认知，身体，心理和感官能力与需求之间的关系 工作然而，在现有的数据中，个体与健康相关的功能能力没有以某种方式测量 这允许与职业的功能需求进行直接比较。建议的目标 研究的目的是调查功能性能力如何增加和限制工作能力，这些影响是如何产生的。 与生命早期获得的人力资本相互作用，以及具有不同 职能能力概况和技能因地区和行业而异，塑造了他们的前景， 独立和健康的老龄化。我们将首先制定一个新的概念框架， 与健康相关的工作能力，包括认知、身体、心理和 感觉能力与职业能力要求的测量。基于这一框架， 我们将设计两个调查，使我们能够在同一尺度上评估功能性能力和技能 同样，国民经济中职业的能力和技能要求 都是经过测量的。这些调查将对全国具有代表性的个人进行抽样 不管他们目前的工作状态如何。我们将使用新的数据来整合功能能力， 技能与职业要求的联邦数据，以产生个性化的工作估计 容量我们将分析与健康相关的工作能力的新措施如何随年龄而变化， 不同的人口统计群体，以及他们如何受到功能下降的潜在限制， 能力、技能限制以及在当地和跨行业缺乏就业机会。

PROJECT SUMMARY Work capacity is a measure of health expressed in relation to the functional demands of the work environment. Specifically, it is the capacity to perform a job or set of jobs, and represents the interaction between an individual’s cognitive, physical, psychomotor, and sensory abilities and the demands of the job. However, in existing data, individuals’ health-related functional abilities are not measured in a way that permits direct comparison to the functional demands of occupations. The goal of the proposed research is to investigate how functional abilities increase and limit work capacity, how these effects interact with human capital acquired earlier in life, and how opportunities for people with different functional ability profiles and skills vary across local areas and industries, shaping their prospects for independence and healthy aging. We will first develop a new conceptual framework for assessing health-related work capacity which integrates measurement of cognitive, physical, psychomotor, and sensory abilities with the measurement of occupational ability requirements. Based on this framework, we will design two surveys that will enable us to assess functional abilities and skills on the same scale and in the same way in which the ability and skill requirements of occupations in the national economy are measured. The surveys will be fielded to a nationally representative sample of individuals regardless of their current work status. We will use the new data to integrate functional abilities and skills with federal data on occupational requirements to produce individualized estimates of work capacity. We will analyze how the new measures of health-related work capacity vary by age, how they differ across demographic groups, and how they are potentially constrained by functional decline in abilities, skill limitations, and lack of occupational opportunities in local areas and across industries.