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Older workers’ job performance not necessarily tied to aging

As workers choose to work longer so they can improve their retirement security, they face workplace perceptions about aging that aren't always correct.

By Marlene Y. Satter | Updated on November 30, 2016
Only a minority of workers are vulnerable to a slowdown in cognitive ability as they age, a CRR brief finds. (Photo: iStock)

Depending on their profession and its demands, older workers don’t necessarily become less able to work or less productive as they age.

So says a brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. With many workers choosing to work longer so that they can improve their retirement security, it can be challenging for older people to find decent-paying work—or to be able to hang onto a job—at least in part because of perceptions about older people’s abilities to perform satisfactorily in the workplace.

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