Fit for work at over 50

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed program to increase performance and well-being. Exercise to train mental flexibility: - Excerpts from the so-called 'Stroop task'. The instruction is not to read the words, but to name the color of their letters. Visually and semantically competing information must be deliberately retrieved or suppressed. Oswald 2005 . Am I over the hill? This question comes up regularly among workers over 50. A common prejudice is that older people's efficiency and stress-tolerance are continuously decreasing.