[Functional aging and compensation of elder workers and ergonomic design].
It was probably inappropriate to use chronological age as the only index for assessing the functional capacities of elder workers. In fact, some functions of elder workers were remained or improved for compensation. The characteristics of functional aging of elder workers were summed up and analyzed. The compensatory mechanisms of accommodation and strategy change, experience and expertise, environmental and social support, and skill learning and retraining were discussed. Finally, the perspective of elder worker ergonomics was depicted in the paper. It is believed that functional age, rather than chronological age, is a scientific index in evaluating the working capacities of elder workers.
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School of Psychological and Behavior Science, Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D004493:Education; D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation