This volume critically reviews the phenomenon of the aging workforce adopting an interdisciplinary perspective that examines the challenges raised on an individual organizational & societal level Core issues framing the concept of the aging workforce & its consequences are presented by a team of leading contributors from around the world Despite the visible trend towards a much older global population & workforce research on the aging workforce employment & retirement is in its infancy & faces a range of paradoxes Taking under consideration all the challenges ranging from the microenvironment of the individual level (individual family friends) to the organizational & macro-environment of the society (infrastructure services legislations etc) this is an essential resource for policymakers & organizations designing strategies to address the challenge of the ageing society Scholars graduates & researchers in occupational & health psychology human resources business & management as well as sociology will gain a better understanding of the changing trends in the characteristics of the workforce through this multi-level review