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Abstract

In most industrialized countries, the nursing workforce, an overwhelmingly numerically female dominant profession, is aging [1]. Analysis of data suggests that this is due to interrelated social and economic factors pushing nurses towards later retirement. Nurses are choosing to remain in the workforce longer, delaying retirement for reasons that include economic and financial necessity, continued desire to care for others and meet professional goals [2], and positive life-span development that is attributable to increased life expectancy and longevity [1–2]. Apart from intrinsic motivators, there is also a growing drive to increase the labour market participation of older individuals in response to shifting population structures secondary to population aging [2, 3–5]. In occupations such as nursing where skills shortages are already being experienced, population aging threatens to deepen this existing problem [6].