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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1502
igaa057.1502
Abstracts
Session 2983 (Paper)
Retirement in the 21st Century
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Who Benefits in Vitality After Retirement? Findings From a 3-Year Panel Study
Vanajan Anushiya 1 Bültmann Ute 2 Henkens Kène 3 1 
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Den Haag, Netherlands
2 
University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
3 
NIDI, Den Haag, Netherlands
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”464 464
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Background. Past studies have revealed the effect of retirement on various health measures. None, however, have studied retirement’s effect on vitality, a holistic measure of physical and mental health. To boot, very few studies have addressed the heterogeneity in the health consequences of retirement. This study investigates the effect of retirement on vitality, and how this effect is influenced by 1) manual work and 2) baseline vitality. Methods. The analyses were based on two waves of the NIDI Pension Panel Survey, collected in the Netherlands in 2015 and 2018. Data from 4,156 older workers (N=4,156), of whom 1,934 (46.5%) retired between waves, were analysed. Vitality is assessed in three ways, as: 1) a composite measure of vitality, and its sub-components 2) energy and 3) fatigue. Results. Conditional Change OLS Regression Models demonstrate that retirement improves vitality and decreases fatigue. These effects were heterogeneous. Retirement was more advantageous for older workers who experienced poor vitality and increased fatigue before retirement. Likewise, older workers who were employed in manual work before retirement, experienced the largest gains in vitality and deepest declines in fatigue post-retirement. No such effects were found for energy. Conclusions. Older workers experiencing low baseline vitality and high baseline fatigue and those in manual labor may benefit from early retirement. Since early retirement is financially unfavorable, it is essential to provide these groups of workers with workplace vitality interventions that may not only improve their vitality and quality of working life, but also extend their participation in the labor market.