ABSTRACT
Discussions on the street, in mass media, and scholarly publications suggest an overworked America with predicable costs to communities, families, social lives, and individuals’ health. The issue of work-life balance seems to be everywhere. The increased home-care responsibilities and tax burdens from an aging population and the need to repay loans in a debtridden society are likely to increase these pressures. Clearly individuals have made, and will continue to make, choices about how to live their lives and how to engage work. These choices have consequences for the definition of and ability to achieve healthy lives, healthy societies, and general well-being.
