The document discusses using the concept of workability to help recruit and retain older workers in the aged care workforce. It provides an overview of the workability construct, which views how well a person's health, skills, and experience match the demands of their job. It also outlines current research projects at the Business Work & Ageing Centre focusing on measuring and promoting workability through interventions and evaluating their effectiveness.

1. Using Workability to recruit and retain life experience in the aged care workforce Business Work & Ageing Centre for Research

4. Screeching to a Halt: Growth in the Working-Age Population Source: Deloitte Research/UN Population Division (http://esa.un.org/unpp/) It’s 2008: Do You Know Where Your Talent Is? Why Acquisition and Retention Strategies Don’t Work, p.6 From Tamara Erickson Concourse Group Mexico Brazil India China South Australia Canada USA NED Spain France UK Russia Italy Japan Germany Korea 1970-2010 2010-2050

5. Health & Community Services Workforce Profile All industries EMPLOYMENT 1 108 800 (10%) 10 559 800 Employment growth in last 5 years 17.3 % 12.7% Aged 45 years or older NILS 2008 estimates -60% residential care -70% community care workers 42% 28% Female 79% 45% Working part-time 46% 37% Employed outside state capital cities Source: Australian Jobs 2008, DEEWR 37% 37%

7. Occupational health and safety data ‘ Many managers see “ageing workforce” issues as intractable problems that are not worth addressing. They believe that most of the injuries sustained (and claims lodged) are the result of a lifetime of accumulated wear and tear, and that nothing we do today will have sufficient impact to warrant the cost.’ Munk, Congdon and Macdonald, in Promotion of Workability - Towards Productive Ageing , Kumashiro (ed) 2009 Taylor Francis

8. Basic problem and basic solution: relationship between human resources and work demands

10. LEVELS OF AGE MANAGEMENT FIOH in Towards longer working lives

12. The BWA retention model: An integrated view

13. The Workability concept

15. Workability Survey Model

16. Personal and Organizational Capacity WAS (Work Ability Survey data Redesigning Work for an Ageing Society, BWA 2009 )

18. Results of interventions Promotion of Workability: integration of actions Modified by Dr Richenhagen, 2003

19. So, why use the Workability model? Proven, evidence-based concept based on research Integrated approach reflects the interaction between individual resources and work factors Model invites and supports collaboration & offers an holistic life course approach Quality assurance - model facilitates & evaluates progress in quest for continuous improvement

20. Who & what is METEOR ? Contact Associate Professor Libby Brooke Email [email_address] Web www.meteorworkability.com.au