Mainstream life course studies often draw on a conventional understanding of time as unidirectional clock-based entity, which proceeds in uniform and linear manner. This paper argues that, order to understand the social, relational psychological processes change continuity that characterise processes, we need adopt more comprehensive explicit conceptualisation – goes beyond an absolute (linear,...

In most industrialised countries, citizens enjoy a very large amount of free time towards the end their lives, when they are retired, but find it costly to access during middle part lives. This is concerning because those who die early deprived reward that retirement holds. Extreme discrepancies between time-rich old age and time-scarce not, however, inevitable: some states incentivise long wor...