Facing the Challenges of a Multi-age Workforce looks at the impact of significant changes in the workplace resulting from the rapidly aging workforce. Contributors present real problems and solutions to an array of situations facing employers worldwide. Using the input from the SCL conferences, Adapting to an Aging Workforce, the chapter, “Optimizing Older Workforces”, outlines some of the common concerns that employers have about older workers in the workplace and describes a growing body of research that indicates many of those misconceptions are unfounded.