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December Issue: Volume (40) 4
The December issue is out now, with lots of content to provide food for thought as we reach the end of another challenging year and look forward to a more normal way of life in 2022.

Dr Ralph Hampson, Deputy Editor in Chief, reflecting on our increasing use of social media and other technologies, provides an overview of recent publications on information and communication technologies (ICT) in the journal.

 The Issue’s review article discusses the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

There are several common themes amongst the Issue’s content:

•  Medication management: Kalisch Ellett and colleagues discuss medication related hospital admissions amongst aged care residents, whilst Bemand and colleagues focus on admissions in the oldest old. There’s a report on results from the Safe Medication Strategy Dementia Study
• Consumer directed care and co-design: the involvement of clients in planning aged care services; ‘what do older people want from integrated care’; an assessment of whether consumer directed care improves quality of life and an NZ article on barriers to implementing age friendly initiatives.
• Social support, mental health and wellbeing in Asian older people: older urban Malaysians; Malaysians living in poverty and Chinese older adults
• Assessment of tools: the use of a Bahasa-Malaysia version of the OARS-IADL; using short versions of the GDS in older Tiawanese and determining clinical perspectives on the utility of the FIM and cognitive screening tests.
• End of life care: an innovative article about converting a sub-acute hospital room for palliative care; improving end of life care in the Australian private hospital setting

The complete Table of Contents and all articles can be accessed (subject to membership) at Overview – Australasian Journal on Ageing – Wiley Online Library

We hope that this issue will assist in guiding your research and practice. We welcome contributions from you about your innovative work. In addition to the scientific papers we publish, we also welcome contributions for our ‘Reflection’ section. Poems or stories (fiction or non-fiction) related to any aspect of ageing, whether from the point of view of a health care worker or older person or patient, or simply an observer, will be considered.

We at the AJA send you good wishes for this festive season and look forward to working with you in the coming year.

Jane Sims, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, AJA.