| Popis: |
Numerous American and European studies have shown that ill health is a common cause of difficulty in work, retirement, and restricted participation in social activities. The specific disabilities which commonly lead to retirement are fairly well-defined. Diseases of the heart and circulation, locomotive disorders, and, at least in parts of Britain, bronchitis account for the majority of health retirements by industrial workers. Ill health and chronic disease can, of course, have equally serious effects on forms of occupation other than employment. In Britain such centers are few, but at Rutherglen in the west of Scotland valuable work has been done at the Consultative Health Center, where experienced advice on health and retirement is available to anyone over fifty-four. Leaving aside the diseases in which excessive activity is clearly harmful, the problem turns on how to design a study to test the general thesis that occupation is, as many people believe, beneficial to health in old age. |
