Publications

BOOK

Silver, M.P. (2018). Retirement and Its Discontents: Why we won’t stop working, even if we can. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

Silver, M.P. (2021). Adaptation to athletic retirement and perceptions about aging. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. 29(5): 828-842. doi: 10.1123/japa.2020-0270

Silver, M.P., Dass, A., & Laporte. (2020). The effect of post-retirement employment on health. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing. 17: 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.11.005

Singh, H., Flett, H.M., Silver, M.P., Craven, C., Jaglal, S.B, Musselman, K.E. (2020). Current state of fall prevention and management policies and procedures in Canadian spinal cord injury rehabilitation. BMC Health Services Research. 20(299): 1-10. doi: 10.1186/s12913-020-05168-8

Silver, M.P., Easty, L.K., Sewell, L.M., Yachouh, R., & Behman, A. (2019). Better to start developing habits now”: Perspectives on exercise participation among Canadian university students. Health Education Journal. 78(7): 851-865. doi:10.1177/0017896919850206

Silver, M.P. & Cronin, S. (2019). Healthcare providers’ perspectives on family compliance and behavior change in a childhood obesity program. Health Education & Behavior. 20(299): 1-10.  doi: 10.1177/1090198119831053

Roblin, B., Deber, R., Kuluski, K., & Silver, M.P. (2019). Ontario’s Retirement Homes and Long-Term Care Homes: A Comparison of Care Services and Funding Regimes. The Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 38(2): 155-167. doi: 10.1017/S0714980818000569

Shen, N., Sequeira, L., Bernier, T., Strauss, J., Silver, M.P., Carter-Langford, & Wiljer, D. (2019). Understanding the patient privacy perspective on health information  exchange: A systematic review.  International Journal of Medical Informatics. 125:1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.01.014

Shen, N., Sequeira, L., Strauss, J., Silver, M.P., Carter-Langford, & Wiljer, D. (2019). Patient privacy perspectives on health information exchange in a mental health context: A qualitative study. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health. 6(11): e13306. doi: 10.2196/13306

Singh, H., Craven B.C., Flett, H.M., Kerry, C., Jaglal, S.B., Silver, M.P., & Musselman, K.E. (2019). Factors influencing fall prevention for patients with spinal cord injury from the perspectives of administrators in Canadian rehabilitation hospitals. BMC Health Services Research. 19 (291): 1-11.  doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4233-8

Roblin, B., Deber, R., Kuluski, K., & Silver, M.P. (2019). Bringing Care Governance to Ontario’s Retirement Homes Sector. Health Reform Observer. 7(1): 1-11. doi: 10.13162/hro-ors.v7i1.3686

Silver, M.P., Settels, J., Schafer, M., & Schieman, S. (2019). Getting the hours you want in the pre-retirement years: Work hour preferences and mismatch among older Canadian workers. Work, Aging and Retirement. 5(2): 175-188. doi: 10.1093/workar/way015

Silver, M.P. (2019). The unbearable lightness of being retired. The Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 38(1): 21-34.

Silver, M.P., & Williams, S.A. (2018). Reluctance to retire: An intergenerational perspective on work identity and retirement from academic medicine.  The Gerontologist. 58(2): 320-330. doi:10.1093/geront/gnw142

Silver, M.P., McRoberts, S., & Singh, H. (2018). When working out works out: Program administrators’ perspectives on seniors’ exercise participation. Activities, Adaptation & Aging. 42(1): 19-40. doi:10.1080/01924788.2017.1376177

Silver, M.P. (2017). Physician retirement: Gender, geography, flexibility and pensions. Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).  189(49):E1507-8. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.171302

Silver, M.P. & Easty, L.K. (2017). Planning for retirement from medicine: A mixed methods study of barriers and facilitators to physician retirement. Canadian Medical Association Journal Open. 5(1): E123-129. doi:10.9778/cmajo.20160133

Silver, M.P. (2016). A critical reflection on physician retirement.  Canadian Family Physician. Physician. 62(10), 783-4.

Silver, M.P. (2016). An inquiry into self-identification with retirement. Journal of Women & Aging. 29(4), 1-12. doi:10.1080/08952841.2015.1018068.

Silver, M.P., Hamilton, A., Biswas, A. & Warrick, N. (2016). A Systematic Review of Physician Retirement Planning.  Human Resources for Health. 14(67): 1-13. doi: 10.1186/s12960-016-0166-z

Silver, M.P., Warrick, N., & Cyr, A. (2016). Student Expectations about Mental Health and Aging. Geriatrics and Gerontology Education. 37(2), 185-207. doi:10.1080/02701960.2015.1005288

Silver, M.P., Hamilton, A.D., Biswas, A., Williams, S.A. (2016). Life after Medicine: A    Systematic Review of Studies of Physicians’ Adjustment to Retirement. Archives of Community Medicine & Public Health, 2(1), 1-7. doi: 10.17352/2455-5479.000006

Silver, M.P. (2015). Patient Perspectives on Online Health Information and Communication With Doctors: A Qualitative Study of Patients 50 Years Old and Over, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(1):e19. doi:10.2196/jmir.3588

Silver, M.P., Pang, N.C., & Williams, S. (2015). “Why give up something that works so well?”: A preliminary investigation of retirement expectations among academic physicians. Educational Gerontology, 41, 5, 333-347. doi:10.1080/03601277.2014.970419

Silver, M.P. (2014). Cumulative socio-economic status and Internet use in older adulthood. Ageing & Society, 34, 6, 1019-1034. doi:10.1017/S0144686X12001420

Silver, M.P. (2010). Women’s retirement and self-assessed wellbeing: An analysis of three measures of well-being among recent and long-term retirees relative to homemakers. Women & Health, 50, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/03630241003601111

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Silver, M.P. (2018). Retirement Expectations. Is it all that it’s cracked up to be? Caregiver Solutions. 20(3): 8-10.

Green, P., Fraser-Thomas, J., Silver, S. Khan, T. & Wolman, L. (2017). A Physical Literacy Strategy for Urban Indigenous Families Through the Life Cycle. A Collaborative Report produced by Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, 77 pages.

Silver, M.P., Brown, A., Mazer, A., & O’Reilly, R. (2016). Health, Retirement and Retirement Security. White paper for the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan.

Carey, A., Jurbala, P., Keila, P.S., McRoberts, S.R.W., Melnike, C.J., & Silver, M.P. (2016). Durable by Design: Active for Life. Canadian Sport for Life. ISBN: 978-1-927921-22-7

Silver, M.P. (2015). Getting your ducks in a row to retire from medicine. Rehab & Community Care in Medicine, 24, 1, 18-22.

Silver, M.P. (2008). Depressive symptoms in traditional versus transitional retirement. Chicago Policy Review, 12, 77-90.

Funding Support:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Principle Investigator

Mitacs Accelerate Cluster Grant, Principle Investigator

Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Grant Health, Retirement and Retirement Security, Co-Principle Investigator

Connaught New Researcher Award, Principle Investigator

Research Competitiveness Fund Award, Principle Investigator

University of Toronto Department of Medicine Grant, Principle Investigator

Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant, Collaborator