September 2020: A new paper by Jonathan Fan, Robert Macpherson, Chris McLeod and colleagues examines age differences in work disability duration after work-related injury/illness, focusing on variations in the relationship across different disability durations.
Published in the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, the study found that older age groups had a lower likelihood of transitioning off wage-replacement benefits compared to younger age groups overall. However, age differences varied depending on length of disability duration, with greater differences observed for shorter disability durations, suggesting that older age is not always strongly associated with worse disability duration outcomes.
