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

项目总结 工作能力是与工作的功能需求有关的健康程度的衡量标准 环境。具体地说，它是执行一项或一组作业的能力，并代表交互 一个人的认知、身体、精神运动和感觉能力与 工作啊。然而，在现有的数据中，个人与健康相关的功能能力并没有以某种方式进行衡量 这使得可以直接将其与职业的功能需求进行比较。建议的目标是 研究是为了调查功能能力如何增加和限制工作能力，这些影响是如何 与早期获得的人力资本互动，以及如何为不同的人提供机会 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 独立和健康的衰老。我们将首先开发一个新的评估概念框架 与健康相关的工作能力，综合了认知、身体、精神运动和 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，使我们能够在相同的规模上评估功能能力和技能 以同样的方式，国民经济中职业的能力和技能要求 都是经过测量的。这些调查将被派往具有全国代表性的个人样本 无论他们目前的工作状态如何。我们将使用新数据来整合功能能力和 具有联邦职业要求数据的技能，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衡量标准如何随年龄变化，它们如何 不同的人口群体，以及他们如何潜在地受到功能衰退的制约 能力、技能限制，以及在当地和跨行业缺乏职业机会。

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.