AJA Latest Issue and New Editor

By Jane Sims
AJA 
Deputy Editor in Chief

As we begin 2023, welcome to the first wholly online Issue of the Journal. We would like to introduce our new Editor in Chief, Professor Mark Hughes. Professor Hughes has worked as a social worker in health, aged care and mental health settings both in Australia and the UK. He has held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of New South Wales, and Goldsmiths College, London. Currently he is Professor of Social Work in the Faculty of Health at Southern Cross University and is a former Editor of Australian Social Work.

We also welcome working with new personnel at two of our partner organisations. After several decades at the helm of COTA Australia, Ian Yates retired in December 2022, with Pat Sparrow becoming Chief Executive. At the AAG, Renu Borst has taken up the reins from James Beckford Saunders as Chief Executive Officer. We look forward to working with all our new colleagues in the gerontology space.

As an international journal, we have considered ‘ageing in place’ as it plays out in various parts of the Australasia-Oceania region. In this Issue, we present a Special Feature on Ageing in Place in China. Professor Wong from the Macao Polytechnic University introduces four papers on ageing in place models in this particular setting in her editorial ‘Beyond the logic of promoting independent living of older adults’.

The Issue contains articles that provide a comprehensive snapshot of research being conducted in the fields of gerontology and geriatric medicine. There are four reviews, including one on assessing driving safety. A team from UTS in Sydney consider the quality effects of agency staffing in residential aged care. Other articles discuss peripheral intravenous catheters, swallowing assessment, teaching delirium to undergraduate medical students and Australian and New Zealander geriatricians perspectives on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

The complete Table of Contents and all articles can be accessed (subject to membership) here.