This multi-disciplinary volume brings together original research from diverse disciplinary backgrounds investigating how we can define and operationalise a bio-psychosocial model of ill-health to improve work participation in middle and later life.

Sarah Vickerstaff is professor of work and employment at the University of Kent. Chris Phillipson is professor of applied social studies and social gerontology at Keele University. Ross Wilkie is RCUK Fellow in epidemiology at the Arthritis Research UK National Primary Care Center at Keele University.