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Older workers with health conditions need better employment support, campaigners say
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PEOPLE over the age of 50 with health conditions are more likely to be out of work than younger age groups, new research suggests.

Campaign group Centre for Ageing Better said older workers with health conditions faced years of financial uncertainty before retirement because of a drop in employment rates as they entered the final third of their working lives.

Reasons included “ageist assumptions” underestimating the value and capacity of older workers, difficulties accessing reasonable adjustments to stay in work and less effective employment support for older age groups, the report said.

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