Table of Contents 5 -- Editors ors Foreword 7 -- Why Publish a Book on Older Workers? Åsmund Lunde 9 -- Editors Introduction Richard Ennals & Robert H. Salomon 11 -- Part 1: Yes we Can? Work Ability of Older Workers 13 -- 1 Research Challenges for Older Workers Juhani Ilmarinen 15 -- 2 Employability Across the Life-Span: Towards new Pathways for Age Research Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden and Annet H. de Lange 19 -- 3 Productivity and the Ageing Body: Occupational Processes and Age Stereotypes Elizabeth Brooke 33 -- 4 Theoretical Perspectives of Older Workers: Integrating Human Resource Management Practices with Resource-based Strategies Hélène Mountford and Peter A. Murray 43 -- 5 Taxi Drivers Working in a large City in Brazil: Good News from Practice Ines Monteiro and Luciana Tiemi Kuranishi-Ferreira 57 -- 6 Health, Safety and Health Promotion -- Taking Evidence into Practice Joanne O. Crawford 67 -- Part 2: Reports from the Workplaces. Age Management and Leadership 79 -- 7 A Three Phase Perspective on Senior Policies Robert H. Salomon & Anne Inga Hilsen 81 -- 8 The Ageing Workforce Management Programme in Vattenfall AB Nordic, Sweden Reidar J. Mykletun and Trude Furunes 93 -- 9 Managers' Decision Latitude for Age Management: Do Managers and EmployeesHave the same (implicit) Understanding? Trude Furunes & Reidar J. Mykletun 107 -- 10 How the Worker Collective may Moderate Active Ageing Policy and its Outcomes Tove Midtsundstad and Hanne Bogen 117 -- 11 Post-merger Downsizing: Exploring the 'Survivor-victim Syndrome' in anAgeing Workforce and Knowledge-based Economy Susan P. Chen & Reidar J. Mykletun 131 -- 12 Attitudes of Managers and Older Employees to each other and the Effectson the Decision to Extend Working Life Kerstin Nilsson 147.

13 Extending Working Life: Individuals' Responses, Attitudes andPractices of Employers in Singapore Helen Ko 157 -- Part 3: Lifelong Learning 173 -- 14 Realising Your Potential: Supporting Older Workers through Learning Graham Smith 175 -- 15 Working beyond Retirement Age in Germany: The Employee's Perspective Dennis Dittrich,Victoria Büsch and Frank Micheel 189 -- Part 4: The Choice is yours - on Incentives and Individual Choices 203 -- 16 Economic and Social Incentives for Viable Age Policies Knut Røed 205 -- 17 "Make me an Offer I Can't Refuse" - Do Extra Days off Contribute toSeniors Staying at Work longer? Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, Migle Gamperiene and Anne Inga Hilsen 209 -- Part 5: Public Policies for Older Workers 223 -- 18 Is Early Retirement History? Philip Taylor 225 -- 19 Extending Working Life and Re-defining Retirement: Problems andChallenges for Social Policy Chris Phillipson 233 -- 20 Older Workers: The Jam in the Sandwich Richard Ennals & Anne Inga Hilsen 245 -- 21 Retirement in 2025: Change and Individual Choice: a New Zealand Delphi Study Rhonda Schlaadt and Alexander Sibbald 253 -- 22 Ageism and Discrimination of Older Workers in Norway Per Erik Solem 267 -- Part 6: Concluding Remarks from the Editors 281 -- 23 Concluding Remarks from the Editors Richard Ennals & Robert H. Salomon 283 -- Index 289 -- Authors 291.