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    TEXT VERSION OF TITLE SLIDE:

    Title: Work Settings: Employing Older Workers
    Contents:
    • Decreased performance
      • For physically demanding work only
    • Work uncommonly demands maximal effort
    • Non-physical advantages that older workers bring to a job are rarely measured
    • Workers abilities matched to the job results in less morbidity
      • Accommodation thinking rare in industry1
        • May change with ADA Amendments Act of 2008
        • Workers are changing (aging) and jobs are changing
    [Footnote: 1 Eur J App Phys 2003 89:536]