Le sfide della gestione della conoscenza del personale a fine carriera in sanità

Population aging will provoke a sort of retirement “tsunami” in the coming years all around Europe and in Italy. Health care and social care, more than other sectors, will be affected by this trend. The retirement of the Ba-by Boomers’ generation entails at least three challenges related to the management of knowledge in health systems: the challenge of knowledge retention, that is the need to keep the expertise of the next retirees within the organization; the challenge of knowledge creation, that is the need to update the skills and competences of the elderly workers; the challenge of knowledge transfer, that is the need to find ways to make different generations share their knowledge. Integrating literature on workforce aging, knowledge management, and human resource management, this article identifies some useful experiences and recommendations to answer the knowledge management challenges linked to workforce aging.