title: [Aging nurses. Reorganizing work to retain nurses].
abstract: The nurse population is growing old in most occidental countries. Facing the physical and psychological loud of their job, many nurses aspire to get retired before the legal age. Such a process is likely to increase the present nursing shortage and so to endanger the care access for a part of the population. Different concepts such the Work ability or the Age management have been developed to allow a better response the professionals' needs. Their offer models and tools to redesign the work organization in a way so that nurses would be able to stay at work in good conditions. These approaches require nevertheless a real political and organizational willingness.
authors.affiliation: CHUV - Direction des soins - Infirmier, enseignant, consultant. Claude.Curchod@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Curchod
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011287:Prejudice; D016526:Workload