With this project we aim to examine the nature and financial impacts of participation in the labour market after pensionable age in two contrasting societies: Sweden and the United States.

Earlier research suggests that high levels of workplace stress may increase the risk of cognitive impairment in midlife and of dementia in late life. However, not all people who experience high levels of psychosocial stress will develop cognitive dysfunction.

Prolonging working lives is an important means to promote healthy aging and the sustainable development, thus is a high priority on the agenda of policy makers. Understanding workplace factors in shaping a longer working life appears as a frontier issue.

Y-SLOSH is the Stress Research Institute's study of the development of mental illness in young people, and possible underlying factors, related to the establishment in the labour market. The project is based on surveys sent out to a sample of 25 500 15–29-year-olds in Sweden.

The purpose of the project is to investigate working conditions, living habits and self-rated mental and general health before and after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and if there have been changes in these areas, in a nationwide sample of gainfully employed individuals in Sweden.

As people work to older ages, maintaining good health and work ability is essential for a sustainable workforce. Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, remain major causes of disability and early retirement.

Identification of the risk factors that predict early signs of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia and the underlying mechanisms may lead to the identification and development of effective personalized preventive strategies that can protect against cognitive dysfunction.

Are brain structure and functional connectivity later in life influenced by midlife psychosocial work stress? Psychosocial stress at work has been suggested to play a role in the development of cognitive dysfunction, but evidence on the neural substrate (brain structure and function) of psychosocial work stress is scarce.

Pension reforms have increased individual choice over retirement age as well as encouraging retired people to supplement their incomes with paid work.

Work-related adverse social behaviors, including violence/threats of violence, bullying, and sexual harassment are remarkably prevalent in working life. Still, high quality evidence on health consequences, especially physical health outcomes and mortality, and on determinants, is scarce.