An older-worker employment model: Japan's Silver Human Resource Centers.
Over the past 20 years, a unique model of publicly assisted industries has developed in Japan, which contracts for services provided by retirees. Jobs for retirees are part-time and temporary in nature and, for the most part, are designed to assist in expanding community-based services. The program, known as the Silver Human Resource Centers, has expanded nationwide and reflects a novel approach to the productive engagement of retirees in society that may be replicable in other industrialized nations.
Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts, Boston 02125-3393, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D004651:Employment / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011050:Policy Making; D012179:Retirement; D013192:Staff Development