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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research suggests retirement from stressful jobs can improve health. According to a recent study, workers without ideal conditions gained eight to 10 years back when they retired.
Workers with ideal working conditions did not see the increased benefit. Ideal working conditions, represented in only two percent of the 14, 714 French workers studied, were defined as high occupational grade, low demands, and high satisfaction. Thus, 98 percent of participants had more reasons to retire than to stay active in the workforce.
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The best option is to redesign working life for older workers to make it healthier and more satisfying than at present, and thus, hopefully, achieve improved occupational health and quality of life, increased productivity, and a larger proportion of the population in work, the authors were quoted as saying.
The mean age of retirement in the French workers studied was 55 years old, which may be younger than average retirement in other countries. Participants' occupations ranged diversely, and all received good social security.
Researchers note that marital status played no role in the increased benefit, concluding that health improvement was linked closely with work, rather than personal life.
SOURCE: The Lancet, 2009
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