Older Health Care Workers (Matter for Discussion)

Submitted by the RCN Greater Liverpool and Knowsley Branch
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the welfare and occupational safety of older health care workers.

More information can be found on the RCN Congress pages: https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress/Agenda

Please see below for some relevant resources you might like to look at ahead of the debate.

Reading List - Older Health Care Workers (Matter for Discussion)

Reports
Journal articles

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2022) Understanding older workers: analysis and recommendations to support longer and more fulfilling working lives. London: CIPD.
International Council of Nurses (2020) Ageing Well? Policies to support older nurses at work. Geneva: ICN.

Cleaver K, Markowski M and Wels J (2022) Factors influencing older nurses’ decision making around the timing of retirement: an explorative mixed‐method study, Journal of Nursing Management, 30(1), pp. 169–178.
Denton J, Evans D and Xu Q (2023) Managers’ perception of older nurses and midwives and their contribution to the workplace: a qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79(2), pp. 727–736.
Fackler C A (2019) Retaining older hospital nurses: experienced hospital nurses’ perceptions of new roles, Journal of Nursing Management, 27(6), pp. 1325–1331.
Jones R and Pearce-Smith A (2021) Too valuable to lose: encouraging older nurses to stay, Nursing Standard, 36(9), pp. 22–23.
Montayre J et al (2023) What interventions and programmes are available to support older nurses in the workplace? A literature review of available evidence, International Journal of Nursing Studies, 139, pp. 104446.