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ing older people as a way to increase diversity and improve ohranjanje in krepitev zdravja | maintaining and promoting health
the quality of society
Marjeta Logar Čuček
University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: The co-called »new reality«, as observed both in Slovenia and
abroad, does not favour the employment of older population. Older people,
who are still active, are labelled as high-risk groups that need special health
care. The society expects an active participation of every individual– being
knowledgeable about the world, understanding the events and environment
leads us to value expertize, work experience and critical reasoning of older
employees. They need to be given an active role, but not under conditions that
drive a worker into absenteeism, failing to appear at work, even without health
reasons, or presenteeism, being present at work at all costs. The purpose of
this study is to find out to what extent the two phenomena have been re-
searched at the post-graduate level at medical faculties, faculty of health scienc-
es or health care faculties in Slovenia, considering various risk factors present
at work and maintaining effort to extend the years of service of older employ-
ees.
Methods: Master’s and Doctoral theses from chosen faculties, published online
between 2015 and 2020, have been studied by using the PRISM protocol. The
identified hits have been described, analysed and evaluated.
Results: Abstenteeism has been researched in different postgraduate study
programmes, including health studies, whereas presenteeism, which is increas-
ingly observed in current time, has so far not been dealt with in the scope that
would provide a more through insight into finding solutions. The employment
of older population is presented in the sense of maintaining their physical fit-
ness, partially also as a stress-coping mechanism. The influences of other psy-
chosocial factors still remain insufficiently explored, considering the complex-
ity of the issue.
Discussion and conclusion: Both absenteeism and presenteeism are frequent-
ly the result of a fear of the »impossible« or »loss«. The changes in society are
more often than not dependent on the changes in an individual’s value system.
New values slowly but surely take root in all pores of society; the process is
greatly accelerated by development and science. The research into the conse-
quences of aging society and longevity and the growing importance of employ-
ment of older population has so far not been widely conducted on the academic
level and, consequently, changes and improvements have not been implement-
ed in real life yet. The improvements that have already been achieved in the
field of equal treatment of older people in employment can be cancelled out,
sometimes very subtly, by a change on the global, or even local level.
Key words: employment, working conditions, excessive workload, presentee-
ism, absenteeism
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the quality of society
Marjeta Logar Čuček
University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Introduction: The co-called »new reality«, as observed both in Slovenia and
abroad, does not favour the employment of older population. Older people,
who are still active, are labelled as high-risk groups that need special health
care. The society expects an active participation of every individual– being
knowledgeable about the world, understanding the events and environment
leads us to value expertize, work experience and critical reasoning of older
employees. They need to be given an active role, but not under conditions that
drive a worker into absenteeism, failing to appear at work, even without health
reasons, or presenteeism, being present at work at all costs. The purpose of
this study is to find out to what extent the two phenomena have been re-
searched at the post-graduate level at medical faculties, faculty of health scienc-
es or health care faculties in Slovenia, considering various risk factors present
at work and maintaining effort to extend the years of service of older employ-
ees.
Methods: Master’s and Doctoral theses from chosen faculties, published online
between 2015 and 2020, have been studied by using the PRISM protocol. The
identified hits have been described, analysed and evaluated.
Results: Abstenteeism has been researched in different postgraduate study
programmes, including health studies, whereas presenteeism, which is increas-
ingly observed in current time, has so far not been dealt with in the scope that
would provide a more through insight into finding solutions. The employment
of older population is presented in the sense of maintaining their physical fit-
ness, partially also as a stress-coping mechanism. The influences of other psy-
chosocial factors still remain insufficiently explored, considering the complex-
ity of the issue.
Discussion and conclusion: Both absenteeism and presenteeism are frequent-
ly the result of a fear of the »impossible« or »loss«. The changes in society are
more often than not dependent on the changes in an individual’s value system.
New values slowly but surely take root in all pores of society; the process is
greatly accelerated by development and science. The research into the conse-
quences of aging society and longevity and the growing importance of employ-
ment of older population has so far not been widely conducted on the academic
level and, consequently, changes and improvements have not been implement-
ed in real life yet. The improvements that have already been achieved in the
field of equal treatment of older people in employment can be cancelled out,
sometimes very subtly, by a change on the global, or even local level.
Key words: employment, working conditions, excessive workload, presentee-
ism, absenteeism
95
