Investigating The Relationship Between Retirement And The Working Memory Of The Elderly With A Case Study Of Retired Elderly People Of Qom Social Security Organization

Evidences and evidences indicate that during retirement and after retirement, the amount of pressure experienced by a person and its physical and psychological consequences are clearly and conspicuously higher than the pre-retirement period. This research aims to investigate the effect of retirement on working memory Retired people collected and examined the opinions of a sample of ۳۸۴ retired people from social security in Qom. and based on the purpose of the applied type and in terms of the nature of the descriptive research type and from Opinion The method is a survey. Two library and field methods were used to collect information. In this research, the tool for collecting information in the field section is a questionnaire. The questionnaire of this research is designed in two parts. The first part questions about the personal and demographic characteristics of the respondents, and the second part measures the impact of retirement on the cognitive performance of the elderly, including the study of the relationship between retirement and working memory . The number of samples was calculated using Cochran's formula for the population. The questionnaire was randomly distributed among the statistical sample. Finally, analyzing the information obtained from the questionnaires, a binomial test was used to measure the research hypothesis. The research hypothesis was confirmed and it can be said that retirement has a significant effect on the working memory of the elderly. Increasing social activities as well as cerebral activities of the retired elderly prevents the reduction of their brain and cognitive function and increases their quality of life in a longer period of time.

Keywords:

Retirement , case study , working memory , organizational behavior