02/27/2018

Why Your Association Should Hire Older Employees

Health improvements have led to improved vibrancy in older Americans

More older Americans are working now than at any time since 2000, according to a 2016 Pew Research Center analysis.

Some of that’s because of advances in medicine and nutrition, said David Gamse, CEO of the Jewish Council for the Aging. “A 60-, 70-, 80-year-old today can still be vibrant and in good health, and is certainly not the rocking chair generation that we have looked at—or have believed older people to be—in the past.”

Gamse added that more older people are retiring from their perhaps unsatisfying for-profit jobs and looking for a second act in the nonprofit and association sector. But it can be tough for older people to break into the association world, since many times recruiting efforts are aimed at recent college graduates, internship programs are geared toward twentysomethings, and supervisors shy from the challenge of managing intergenerational teams.

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