Support Networks Before and after Retirement

Perceptions of retired professional soccer players about the provision of support services before and after retirement.

OBJECTIVE To determine the views of retired players about the provision of support services in English professional soccer before and after retirement and to assess the impact of career ending injury on these views. METHOD An anonymous self administered questionnaire was distributed to 500 former players registered with the English Professional Footballers' Association. The questions asked ab...

Participation in employer-sponsored wellness programs before and after retirement.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate wellness program participation before and after retirement. METHODS This retrospective cohort design compares 3 groups of employees: 1998-1999 retirees (N=6065), 1994-1995 retirees (N=5862), and 21,176 employees who were still active as of 2002. Participation was compared over 2 time periods for high-intensity and low-intensity programs. RESULTS Significantly differen...

Health in the Years Before Retirement

The worker who approaches retirement in good health, and with the means of maintaining it, possesses a major source of well-being for the years ahead. In a cohort of people not yet 65, three-fourths reported that their health uas at least on a par with that of others thezr age and three-fifths were free of clzsabling health conditaons h’ine out of 10 had made some contact math the medical world...

Before After Before After

Self-rated health before and after retirement: findings from the French GAZEL cohort study

Funding: HW and CL are supported by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS, grants #2004-2021, #2007-1143), JV and MK are supported by the Academy of Finland (grants #117604, #124271, #124322 and #129262), MK is additionally supported by the BUPA Foundation Specialist research grant, JEF is supported by the MRC (Grant number G8802774), ASM is supported by a EUYRI award fr...