title: Premature retirement due to ill health and income poverty: a cross-sectional study of older workers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the income-poverty status of Australians who were aged between 45 and 64 years and were out of the labour force due to ill health.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study using a microsimulation model of the 2009 Australian population (Health&WealthMOD).
  
  
  METHODS
  2009 Australian population.
  
  
  METHODS
  9198 people aged between 45 and 64 years surveyed for the 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers.
  
  
  METHODS
  50% of the median equivalised income-unit-income poverty line.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was found that individuals who had retired early due to other reasons were significantly less likely to be in income poverty than those retired due to ill health (OR 0.43 95% CI 0.33 to 0.51), and there was no significant difference in the likelihood of being in income poverty between these individuals and those unemployed. Being in the same family as someone who is retired due to illness also significantly increases an individual's chance of being in income poverty.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It can be seen that being retired due to illness impacts both the individual and their family.
authors.affiliation: NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Deborah J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Schofield
authors.forename: Emily J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Callander
authors.forename: Rupendra N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Percival
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Megan E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Passey
keywords: Health Economics; Preventive Medicine; Public Health