Well-being throughout the senior years

The transformation of retirement involves changes in the nature and social patterning of work; the nature, timing and meaning of retirement; and the relationships between work and retirement. [...] Early literature on retirement focused on retirement as an event, and studied variability in the timing of the event and the consequences of the event. [...] The emerging perspective in the retirement literature is that it is the nature and timing of retirement that affects health outcomes (physical and mental), not the event in and of itself (Marshall and Clarke 1998). [...] Policy research should address the impact of the elimination of mandatory retirement on the timing and pathways into retirement and on the economic consequences for both the individual and society. [...] Given the interests in some older Canadians to continue to participate in the labour force and the benefit of their continued employment to the economy, policy research could address issues that would remove impediments and provide incentives for older workers to extend their working lives including: the retraining of older workers especially with regard to technology;.