Tracking shifting trajectories: Understanding employment status, musculoskeletal discomfort, and total physical activity amongst active older Albertans

On December 5 at noon, please join us in the Prentice Institute Boardroom (L1102) or via zoom for Dr. Jon Doan's presentation of his Prentice Institute funded project, "Tracking shifting trajectories: Understanding employment status, musculoskeletal discomfort, and total physical activity amongst active older Albertans."

The purpose of his research project was to prepare to survey a third wave of peri-retirement Albertans about their transitional employment status and lifetime work history, along with leisure and work-related physical activity and work-related musculoskeletal discomfort using a structured retrospective questionnaire. Two related experimental hypotheses followed this purpose:

1) Older Albertans with transitional employment will report more total physical activity than either fully retired or fully employed older adults, including relatively high levels of both work and leisure physical activity; and

2) Work-related musculoskeletal discomfort will be equally high among transitionally employed and fully employed older Albertans, due to a failure to age-appropriately reduce physical and mental stressors at work.

> 200 fully completed surveys were collected at both of the 2009 and 2015 Alberta 55+ Winter Games, and isolated analysis on some data from both Games has been completed and published in traditional academic outlets. This work is the foundation for a third data collection wave in 2023-2024.

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