Introduction:

The aging of the active workforce explains the strong demographic change which is nowadays taking place mainly due to both increasing longevity and decreasing fertility rates. It seems to be a challenge to improve the life quality of the older worker.

Objective:

To identify and evaluate the modern interventions in the health promotion of the older worker by encouraging an active and healthy aging at the workplace.

Methods:

A systematic review based on the literature published between 2006-2016 in different scientific databases has been carried out: MEDLINE, SCOPUS, IBECS, LILACS and WOK.

Results:

The search produced a total of 63 registers. After applying filters and inclusion and exclusion criteria a total of 8 original articles were selected: 3 cross-sectional studies, 3 randomised controlled studies and 2 non randomised control trials.

Statistically significant results were observed in different health promotion strategies of the older worker improving the workplace activities.

Conclusions:

The articles aiming for the maintenance of health, well-being in active aging obtained positive results regarding several health indicators (daily physical activity, food habits, body weight, BMI, etc.). Still, quality longitudinal studies are scarce. There is a clear necessity to generate evidence adjusting the existing programmes according to the age, the predominant pathology in each labour sector and the corresponding cost-effectiveness analysis.