How we combine our work and family life across our lives can have implications for our health later on in middle age, but are those implications and are they different for earlier generations? In this episode of The Lifecourse Podcast, Rebecca Lacey discusses her research looking at the combined work and family life courses of British men and women, how stressed they are in midlife and what that might mean for their health as they get older.
Further information
- Work-family life courses and markers of stress and inflammation in mid-life: evidence from the National Child Development Study is research by Rebecca Lacey and colleagues and is published in the International Journal of Epidemiology