During 2014, the average number of working aged adults (16 to 64) who were 'economically inactive' was 769,000.
According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, when I was born in the early 1970s, only about 43percentt of working aged women participated in the labor force, barely half the rate of similarly aged men.
The present study aims to address shortcomings of previous research while it concentrates on a representative sample of working aged individuals.
There were also higher proportions of working aged women compared with working aged men, and this age structure is evident among participants attending the follow-up examinations.
In Germany, two types of rehabilitation services are provided to different groups of working aged persons according to the degree of limitation of functioning: general medical rehabilitation and work-related medical rehabilitation (WMR).
Several facts are responsible for this increase in use, including (1) the prevalence of knee arthritis parallels the growing numbers of older adults, (2) increasing numbers of working aged adults are choosing TKR [ 1], and (3) TKR is a cost-effective intervention that reduces and eliminates pain.
