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Want to be fit at forty? Don’t have a baby early!

Posted on December 1, 2016December 8, 2016 by Chris Garrington

Having a family early may not be good for your health later on. That was the conclusion of a team of researchers at the ESRC International centre for Lifecourse Studies when they looked at the interplay between the work and family lives of men and women, whose lives have been tracked over time in the…

Never too early, never too late

Posted on November 8, 2016April 12, 2022 by Chris Garrington

The research team at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL has produced a plain English booklet summarising some of its recent research and what can be learned from it in respect of living as long and as healthy and happy a life as possible. Never too early, never too late shares a number of important research…

Reform and retirement: pension lessons from Finland

Posted on November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 by Chris Garrington

Pension reform is taking place in countries around the world. Governments, businesses and individuals have gradually come to terms with the fact that one of the consequences of us all living longer is that existing pension arrangements are unsustainable. As a result, millions of workers are being encouraged, nudged or, in some cases, forced to…

Who works post State Pension Age?

Posted on November 5, 2016January 13, 2017 by Chris Garrington

Across Europe and indeed other parts of the world, we’re being told we need to work longer than in the past. The reason? We’re all living longer and pension systems everywhere are collapsing under the strain. But with age can come poorer health and reduced physical capabilities and what if doing our job is physically…

Empower employees! They will retire later

Posted on October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 by Chris Garrington

Working longer has become a policy priority in recent years, but how can people be actively encouraged to retire later? What needs to change in the workplace in order to persuade people to extend their working life? UCL’s Ewan Carr, as part of the renEWL project, has been looking at survey information from the English…

Out of work again? The psychological impacts of repeated unemployment

Posted on September 6, 2016April 12, 2022 by Chris Garrington

Being unemployed is bad for our mental well-being, but if we lose our job more than once does the psychological blow lessen in some way? Researchers Cara Booker from the University of Essex and Amanda Sacker at the International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL used the long-running British Household Panel Survey to examine the…

Having a baby early? It might not be good for you later

Posted on August 8, 2016July 29, 2016 by Chris Garrington

Being employed is generally good for your health. That’s what a large body of research has shown over the years. But what about when you put having a family into the mix? That’s a question that Dr Anne McMunn at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL has been asking in a series…

Are permanently sick people less sick nowadays?

Posted on July 20, 2016November 3, 2016 by Chris Garrington

Brexit aside, there have few topics more hotly contested in recently years than who should get incapacity benefits. The steady rise in the incapacity benefits bill over several decades led some to question whether greater numbers of people could actually be sick and whether this group is actually healthier, with less serious health problems, than…

Does having a rotten job in middle age leave us depressed in retirement?

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Chris Garrington

People’s working conditions have been high up the news agenda recently and not just in non European parts of the world either. Understandably, considerable concern has been expressed about the impact that low paid jobs with poor and uncertain conditions have on workers’ lives. But what are the impacts of poor or stressful working conditions…

Work and family – how it affects our health

Posted on June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 by Chris Garrington

How our working and family lives affect our health as we get older is of increasing interest to us all. Researchers at the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies have used the 1958 Cohort Study to look at levels of inflammation (indicators of being at risk of illnesses such as heart disease) and and how people combine their work and family…

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