Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications:

  • Silver, M.P. (2023). The Retirement Paradox. Contexts. 22(2): 24-20. doi: 10.1177/15365042231172461
  • Voorheis, P., Silver, M.P., & Consonni, J. (2023). Adaptation to life after sport for retired athletes: A scooping review of existing reviews and programs. PLOS ONE. 18(9): e0291683. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291683
  • Voorheis, P., Hasnain, S.M., Tiznado-Aitken, I., Widener, M., & Silver, M.P. (2023). Understanding and supporting active travel in older adults using behavioural science: Systematic scoping review and strategic behavioural analysis. Journal of Transportation & Health. doi: 10.1016/j.jth.2023.101602
  • 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., 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., 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): 851-8665. 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 vieillissementdoi: 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. (2019). The unbearable lightness of being retired. The Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 38(1): 21-34.
  • Silver, M.P.  (2018). Retirement and Its Discontents: Why we won’t stop working, even if we can. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
  • 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 Open5(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

Books

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

Select Community Research, Reports & Other Publications:

  • Silver, M.P., Barrett, K., Teshome, B., Hou, C., Lalchand, P., Santhikumaran, S. (2023). Protocol for Scoping Review of Academic Retirement. https://hdl.handle.net/1908/131039
  • Silver, M.P. (2020, April 30). We need not lose touch with our seniors during the coronavirus pandemic. Toronto Star, 10.
  • 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:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Principle Investigator (2018-2023)
  • Mitacs Accelerate Cluster Grant, Principle Investigator (2017)
  • Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Grant Health, Retirement and Retirement Security, Co-Principle Investigator (2016)
  • Connaught New Researcher Award, Principle Investigator (2016-2017)
  • Research Competitiveness Fund Award, Principle Investigator (2015-2016)
  • University of Toronto Department of Medicine Grant, Principle Investigator (2014)
  • Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant, Collaborator (2014-2018)