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Older Workers and Rehabilitation Counselling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

Andrew Remenyi
Andrew Remenyi*
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LaTrobe University
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Abstract

In this paper the ageing labour force, changing labour force participation rates, and age discrimination in the world of work, especially as exhibited in employer practices, are discussed. Implications of these phenomena for what rehabilitation counsellors do are proposed by way of discussion points on the topics of vocational and rehabilitation counselling, job analysis and placement, professional advocacy and community programs, and training of older workers.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 46 - 60
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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