AJA Latest Issue

AJA Latest Issue

An overview of the AJA March Issues: Volume 40 (1)
We welcome our new Editor in Chief, Professor Debra Waters as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Journal.

The Journal continues to address contemporary topics in gerontology and geriatrics. For example, this Issue features an Invited Editorial reflecting on the mental health of residents of aged care facilities within the context of COVID-19 and the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. There’s an article on the development of a clinical screening tool for identifying COVID-19 in residential care and a brief report on the impact of COVID-19 on quality of life in community based aged care recipients. Dr Susan Ogle reflects upon kindness in the time of COVID-19.

An Editorial that accompanies our most recent Virtual Issue on the topic of healthy ageing within rural and remote settings gives an overview of the ongoing challenges and some of the interventions employed to date.

We include a systematic review on foot disease and physical function and another on self-management programs in older people with knee osteoarthritis.

The complete Table of Contents and all articles can be accessed (subject to membership) at
Australasian Journal on Ageing (wiley.com)

We hope that this issue will assist in guiding your research and practice. We welcome contributions from you about your innovative work. We also welcome expressions of interest for Associate Editor roles. Without the ongoing valuable contributions of this great team, we wouldn’t be able to deliver the journal to our members and readers.:  – please refer to the advert in this Issue and contact Professor Waters debra.waters@otago.ac.nz

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